It's called You Witness and is a new service launched by Yahoo (in collaboration with the Reuters news agency ) that promises to revolutionize the way of information. In the wake of the many initiatives that have seen around the world feature the "prosumers" (read: consumers who are actively involved in content production of a product / service), You Witness allows anyone to document an event considered to be material, from news to gossip, to provide evidence to an e-mail address of the site. The editorial staff of the agency will then consider the attentibilità / authenticity and decide whether to publish content on the portal. For now, the content produced by the "people-journalists" will be published only to enrich the network of Yahoo News and the rewards for this work was "only" in a citation of honor for the authors (Yahoo talk about of "social wage").
In the future however, if the initiative proves to be sustainable (issues still to be resolved are those concerning all'attentibilità photos and videos, to privacy, the ability to select what is sent) you could also get some form of sharing with users profit from sales to other users (from other websites to print).
(Source: Paul C. Conti Nova 24, December 14, 2006)
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