Netscape – Social News Portal
http://www.Netscape.com/

The new Netscape.com is a social news portal programmed by you—the audience! All of the stories on Netscape are submitted and voted on by their members. They have a team of full-time “Netscape Anchors” in their newsroom that monitor the site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. These anchors do a number of things to keep the Netscape experience clean and compelling. First, they remove spam (we all hate spam). Secondly, they select the stories in “Netscape Anchors recommend…” box at the top of the page. Finally, they do followup journalism on many of the stories you vote to the Home Page and create original video on topics they feel you would enjoy. You can see their comments in the yellow “Netscape Anchor Commentary” box. Stories with Anchor commentary are noted with an “Anchor” on the top level of the site. In addition to the Anchors, they also have a team of part-time Navigators, who submit stories of interest to Netscape, help in the endeavor to remove all spam from Netscape, redirect stories breaking the middle-man rule (see below) to their original source, and generally serve as leaders in the social news space. They also have the Netscape Development team working full time to improve the site by adding new features and fine-tuning existing features. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.