Comments on: NewsCred – Credibility Meter for News and Blogs

By: Gautam Kshatriya

Gautam Kshatriya — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:37:39 +0000

On first glance, the homepage gives the impression that the site is merely an aggregator and reorganiser of content from top sources such as the BBC, guardian etc. Since these are well established publishers, its not surprising that they’ve risen to the top.

Unfortunately this makes the content that I see on the front page boring, with no real incentive to use this model instead of my rss reader, where I might already be subscribed to the publishers that NewsCred tracks.

Perhaps if NC focussed on driving the credibility of lesser known publishers (smaller bloggers) this would lead to a greater participation from the bloggers themselves (right now displacing bbc from the front page would seem like a pointless fantasy for the small-time blogger), and also from readers who enjoy discovering new blogs, but wish somebody would help them a tad when it came to recognizing the good publishers from the not-so-good ones.

It would be nice to know a little bit more about their credibility algorithm. Indeed, if it makes sense, it might give it a little bit more credibility (pun not intended, but serendipitous).

Gautam Kshatriya
gautam.kshatriya@moneyvidya.com
http://www.moneyvidya.com/blog

By: sean

sean — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:50:37 +0000

I believe these guys are onto something big – their interface clearly lays out the interestingness of the UI.

And i kinda agree with you on the qns raised- why shd a user rate a blog?

By: sean

sean — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:50:22 +0000

I believe these guys are onto something big – their interface clearly lays out the interestingness of the UI.

And i kinda agree with you on the qns raised-

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:58:33 +0000

Totally agree with the point that few credible sources do not always break the silence….Well,newscred looks well architectured…