If the reader votes on the credibility of the articles, then it’s just a popularity index.

Cheers,

Alan

Perhaps they would like to make some more favourable comparisons,

E.g.

1) We have the ability to aggregate comments – and most importantly push comments back to blogs – this means bringing the masses is a reality (We aggregate in the region of 20,000 comments a day)
2) We examine the license on every single post we receive and change how we display it based upon the license terms.
3) We rank content on actual Attention Data from our own users, we care what our users think not anything else.
4) We allow users to log-in to our service via 14 different identity types – you can post links directly (one click) to twitter, delicious, friendfeed + lots more.
5) Our traffic is 75% Internet Explorer (WE are the people bringing this content to a new audience)

I’m not sure where you saw that we ‘accused you of screen scraping.’ Allen asked me to comment on our feed scraping policy. In essence, how do we treat feeds with respect to copyright. Your point 2 above is your policy, but we tend to think differently. I really think we shouldn’t be asking content providers to modify feeds or put in CC licensing in order to opt out. It’s their content, so they have a right to say no. And if they say no, we will simply listen without requiring to do anything else.

You have an approach with Fav.or.it that is different, but I commend that fact that you guys have put thought into the copyright issue. Everyone has a right to their opinion, and I certainly didn’t mean to accuse or use this thread to criticize your service. I was merely responding to Allen.

I wish you the best of luck. Please contact me at shafqat at newscred dot com if you wish to chat further or want to grab a beer at some point!

I see, User votes + Comscore + PageRank + any other analytics = higher credibility.

At least, hot news is closer to front page news.

Anyway, I did not want to start any argument. It is just my humble opinion that it is a little pretentious to say that we decide what is credible or not.

Cheers,

Alan

Apologies I had not read the article in context and the article itself was what mentioned screen scraping. We are certainly pushing the question on how content can be used but all will become clear soon when we launch the next phase of the platform and hopefully everyone will understand the value in what we are doing. Number one point for me is that I blog, and I wanted a new revenue model that I could not see at the time, once it is released myself, NewsCred and every other blogger will find themselves with a few more options.

Definitely up for that beer at some point!

So, User votes + comScore + PageRank + any other WebAnalytics = Higher credibility

Well, that’s news to me…

Anyway, wish newscred all the best.

Cheers,

Alan