HuffPost crowd sources headlines
Friday, September 11th, 2009
The Huffington Post, the news source that keeps getting more social is now looking to its Twitter followers to help write better headlines. Announced earlier yesterday via the microblogging site, would-be journalists can help prevent the publication of bad headlines.
First tweeted by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, the idea is based on The Hourly Press’ News about News as an example of an entirely Twitter aggregated publication. The idea, while somewhat complex boils down to the fact that The Hourly Press is powered by attention and relies on organic networking activity rather than direct action such as a ‘like’ or ‘digg’. (more…)
