MySpace visitors to vote on what's news

MYSPACE VISITORS TO VOTE ON WHAT'S NEWS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Joseph Menn]
Leave it to the folks behind "American Idol" to ask tens of millions of MySpace visitors to vote for their favorite news story. News Corp., which owns the world's top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network, is introducing MySpace pages today that will present a massive number of articles and blog entries ranked by their popularity among its users. MySpace News will automatically collect stories from thousands of sources and group them in hundreds of categories, then place them in order based on the votes. The project is the latest effort to apply the collective thinking of the masses to journalism, bringing to bear the power of one of the most-visited websites.
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-myspace19apr19,1,3200084.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business
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