Good ideas on how to solve it. Part of the problem is that people aren’t linking as much as they used to that is why TechMeme has hired so many editors.

My company, BuzzBox, was thinking that the best way is to let the user have tools that let them select sites they like and they don’t. Then they can get the top news from those sites. The hard part is the discovery of new sites. Having the sites be public will encourage people to find what other people are reading kinda like on Twitter. What do you think of that?

Anu

Good ideas on how to solve it. Part of the problem is that people aren’t linking as much as they used to that is why TechMeme has hired so many editors.

My company, BuzzBox, was thinking that the best way is to let the user have tools that let them select sites they like and they don’t. Then they can get the top news from those sites. The hard part is the discovery of new sites. Having the sites be public will encourage people to find what other people are reading kinda like on Twitter. What do you think of that?

Anu

I hope that with some careful selection we can encourage linking to good stuff, and try to ignore the remainder. Easier said than done, I know.

I hope that with some careful selection we can encourage linking to good stuff, and try to ignore the remainder. Easier said than done, I know.

Nice post and some great thoughts in here, thanks for mentioning Outbrain. One of the nice features of our content recommendation platform is it does precisely what you outline: it lets web publishers create their own virtual network of sites and link just to those they choose. You provide us a list of sites you want to recommend and we pull the most targeted links in from just that set. You can even control what percentage of links you want to “link out” versus point back into your own content.

We have large publishers with many branded assets using this functionality to connect their content in an automated way, and we have individual sites using these features to link out to complementary sites with whom they have an affinity and whose content they think their readers will enjoy.

We are also pioneering a new approach to letting bloggers/publishers monetizing great content by providing their users links to……more great content! It’s a link out strategy for content producers that lets them kill two birds with one stone: 1) provide their readers pointers to great external articles and 2) get paid for it.

Keep the great crafted content coming! We readers need (and very much appreciate) it.

Nice post and some great thoughts in here, thanks for mentioning Outbrain. One of the nice features of our content recommendation platform is it does precisely what you outline: it lets web publishers create their own virtual network of sites and link just to those they choose. You provide us a list of sites you want to recommend and we pull the most targeted links in from just that set. You can even control what percentage of links you want to “link out” versus point back into your own content.

We have large publishers with many branded assets using this functionality to connect their content in an automated way, and we have individual sites using these features to link out to complementary sites with whom they have an affinity and whose content they think their readers will enjoy.

We are also pioneering a new approach to letting bloggers/publishers monetizing great content by providing their users links to……more great content! It’s a link out strategy for content producers that lets them kill two birds with one stone: 1) provide their readers pointers to great external articles and 2) get paid for it.

Keep the great crafted content coming! We readers need (and very much appreciate) it.