All Blog Posts from Public Eye

Unless you're glued to C-SPAN watching the Alito hearings (or maybe not), here's a look at some of what we came across here and there on the Web that's worth a quick look:



We’d be remiss if we didn’t share with you the news that our mothership, CBSNews.com, has launched a new feature on the site that culls the best of the best blog buzz – and not just that related to the media, that’s what we’re here for. This week, Blogophile, written by CBSNews.com’s Melissa McNamara, rounds up ‘spherians coverage of everything from the announcement that the messiah of fake news, Jon Stewart, will be hosting the Oscars to blog reax during Judge Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearings.



Speaking of culling the best of the best, Henry Seltzer over at PressGaggle.com pores over the White House Press Briefing transcripts (occasionally, at least) in search of the finest in gaggle humor. Here’s a nice bit from yesterday’s gaggle:

Q Scott, I just want to come back to this point about irresponsibility, because there seems to be --



MR. McCLELLAN: We're not talking about you.



Q Not today, anyway. (Laughter.)

Ah, woe is the White House reporter.

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The citizen journalist revolution is in full swing these days. And as the news industry continues to adjust itself to an audience that increasingly prefers to get its news from the Web – the Web itself continues to accomodate an audience that wants more control over how news content is presented.



Enter Newsvine. The Seattle Post Intelligencer recently offered a preview of the soon-to-be-launched news site that “gives you almost all the same stories you read on sites like MSNBC and CNN but presents them in a much more attractive package,” says Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson on his blog. Along with news stories from various outlets such as the Associated Press, that package will also include a substantial amount of contribution from viewers, who can submit their own stories as well as rank the site's news stories, creating a “reader-generated editing system that boosts the most popular articles to front page prominence,” according to the Intelligencer. The site appears to expand on the same idea offered by sites such as Google News, where story selection is based on an algorithm and therefore remains untouched by editors' hands. But instead of an algorithm, "Newsvine uses the 'group intelligence' of readers," says the Intelligencer. Another Newsvine novelty, notes Davidson: "Getting your own column on Newsvine isn’t only free but you’ll also keep advertising earnings associated with traffic to your pages."



The site launches in the next two months ... we'll be keeping our Eye on it.

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