The site is looking to judge news articles online by quality, rather than simple popularity, with a more finely grained evaluation of news stories than one gets from the gladiatorial thumbs-up, thumbs-down votes by which stories live and die on Digg.
NewsTrust, in essence, aims to counter the fascination of the inclusive crowd -- picture Britney Spears on a Linux-based iPod sold by Microsoft -- with the wisdom of the vetted crowd.
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Great story about NewsTrust. If it had been only about NewsTrust, it would have rated much higher. By failing to understand the value propositions of Digg, Newsvine, and the others and tro try to put them into perspective, it became a poor story. There was no reason to draw the comparison. A good story on this site without more than passing reference to the others would have been fine. By proclaiming Newstrust a winner of a competition it's not in and ignoring the valuable community contributions of the others, it fails to deliver on the headline.
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