You Report. You Decide, Too, While You’re At It.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
A few years back, if you recall, you were Time’s Person of the Year. Because, y’know, you’d posted that thing about Mentos and Diet Coke on YouTube, or edited a Wikipedia post, or blogged, or something. In other words, Time realized that the internet was–belatedly–starting to deliver on some of the democratic promise of its early days.
More evidence can be found on Now Public, a news site that’s powered by the contributions of pretty much anyone who finds something that may be newsworthy and decides to write about it. Unlike Google News or Drew Curtis’s Fark, Now Public isn’t a news aggregator; the idea here is for you, the user, to get up off your ass and report something. Those somethings, when they’ve come, have been from all corners of the world, and have included subjects as diverse as Governor Rod Blagojevic and the Dalai Lama’s speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising. (more…)