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Is this the future of newspapers?

Logoagoravox Joel de Rosnay is a guy you just can’t ignore. Reading through the pages of Agor Vox I’m wondering whether this really is the model for citizen journalism. Back in the mid nineties a group of us wrestled with the potential of social media, blogging, non-linear reading and hyper-linked editorial at Britain’s first online newspaper, but what Rosnay is exploring here is a genuine contender for a new model of citizen journalism.
Try out Agor Vox | Mail me your thoughts about social media | Read the interview | Rosnay on Web 3.0

It’s already the 12th most popular newspaper in France and though its origins were in news and politics, it seems to be mushrooming into sports, health and just about anything people want to write about. Agora Vox uses models of editing similar to Wikipedia and it seems to prove that community self-policing models can work well in general news media when participants are creating the content rather than the media groups.

May 14, 2007 |

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