Blend of blogging and Wikipedia

Not sure if you folks have already heard of this news portal OhMyNews.com, a Korean startup thats based on citizen journalism providing a different twist to the Wikipedia concept.

This lets commoners like us compile and submit stories about international events and opinions on current events. OhMyNews provides a very professional view of the news content, for a little while I was not sure if this was based on citizen journalism or professional journalism.

One of the things that struck me it has an high adoption in major hubs of civilzation and certain not-so hubs such as Lhasa and Tehran. (Later I realized this is highly influenced by local media and reigning political climate). Also there is absolutely no significant representation from the world's biggest democracy. http://www.buzztracker.org/

So if some of you are itching to write or want to write about India, it might help (however small) the imbalance that Kabul is third on the top ten news locations in the world :)

* New York (10%)
* Washington (06%)
* Kabul (05%)
* Khartoum (05%)
* Tehran (04%)
* Hong Kong (04%)
* Toronto (04%)
* Chicago (03%)
* London (02%)
* Baghdad (02%)

Source: Buzztracker.org