Newsvine Is Looking For A Few Good Writers, Who Know A Few Good Writers, Who Know…

Newsvine is trying to attract writers to blog within their network, rather than out in the wild.

[from Newsvine - Writing On Newsvine]

If you’d like your own column, we’d like to publish it for you! Start writing here, and we’ll promote your articles throughout the site based on what keywords (“tags”) you provide for each article.

For instance, if you wrote an article about Bill Clinton and tagged your article “clinton” it would immediately show up both in your own column (yourname.newsvine.com) and at “newsvine.com/clinton”. As more readers view and endorse your articles, your reach, influence, and placement on the site will grow. We call this democratic system of classifying and promoting content a newsonomy.

I don’t think “newsonomy” will catch on, but the idea of a collective shared tagspace — a la Technorati — owned by the collective is a good one. Why let Technorati make all the ad revenue from the tags?

But why can’t I just join from wherever I blog? Couldn’t Newsvine just take my RSS? Why do I have to blog it there?

Newsvine also is pushing a sort of affiliate marketing model, which Kevin Burton refers to as a pyramid scheme. Pulling in other writers puts more money in you pocket: you make 10% of whatever revenues are made by those you invite to Newsvine.