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Former Swedish Pirate Party leader and Internet activist Rick Falkvinge launched a new venture yesterday. Intended to rival established media, Falconwings provisions quality news bulletins that are easily shared via the project's automated image creation process. A total of 600 writers are being recruited, with the sole criteria being the ability to consistently author summaries of 450 characters, split into three principle sentences: Fact, Background and Satire.
Initial signs have been promising, with the various tweets from candidates exceeding expectations in terms of quality and audience.
Are there any budding Soylentils interested in giving this a try?
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:53AM
impressions
My guess is this implies no click thru. So no "click here to punch the monkey and infect windows PCs with god knows what" but they will have an interesting time trying to sell "major accounts" like Pepsi or Ford.
An honest critique would be financial news would probably be easier to sell ad space. Not serious real news like zerohedge but the infotainment stuff like CNBC. Those tv channels are clogged with brand awareness advertisements, so surround them with fluff and collect the dough. The problem is nobody finds CNBC and the like very interesting and there's no "signalling" utility like there is with a business putting a financial channel on in a public place.