Newzzz.kz is a new Web 2.0 project from Kazakhstan. It's Kazakh own digg.com.
“Newzzz.KZ provides social news in Kazakhstan. You publish everything interesting what is happening in Kazakhstan and around. You decide which news are worth reading” - says the offcial disclaimer.
Every registered user receives not only the right to publish premoderated posts, but also a chance to win 5,000 tenge. Premoderation screens off hooligans and promotes the best posts to the main page. On your left you can see a tag cloud. In order to attract users they exploit moral incentive in addition to the financial one - top users are ranked in a separate rating.
“Part of the site’s creators was born in Kazakhstan, and another part simply respects this country, … which unfortunately lacks good websites”, reads the “About the project” chapter - so, in fact, this is a non-Kazakh product.
Regretfully, in spite of great ideology of the project (much more efficient and up-to-date than, say, “Newsfactory” that has eaten away lots of donor’s money), which could create a real alternative to the traditional media and overcome the vacuum of information fro the country’s regions, so far the protal is overwhelmingly stuffed with the news that are not related to Kazakhstan at all, and that are not the posts actually - but mere reprints fro the mainstream media.
Site language: Russian
Source: NewEurasia.net
Link: Newzzz.kz - Only Your News (Kazakhstan)
1 comment:
There is one more such website: http://www.media.kz. :-)
P.S. Great idea for the blog, useful and interesting.
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