[Web4lib] Brijit.com - User-generated article abstracts

[B.G. Sloan]

  Interesting new startup...ordinary everyday Web surfers getting paid (barely) to write 100-word summaries of longer artcles...sort of a Wikipedia-like verson of Readers Guide Abstracts.  :-)
   
  Jonathan Kay has written a brief column about it for Canada's National post:
   
  http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=350929  
   
  An excerpt from Kay's column:
   
  "Brijit.com synthesizes articles from magazines and newspapers into mini-reviews of 100 or fewer words...All of the Brijit summaries are written by ordinary web surfers. When a magazine publishes a new issue, Brijit's editors put the contents out for "assignment." Anyone can log on, pick an article that looks interesting and take a crack at writing a summary."
   
  Brijit.com's "about" page:
   
  http://brijit.com/about/about_brijit
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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