This friday publicsquarehq launched their first version of PublicSquare software, enabling anyone to make a peerwritten and peerreviewed web-site.
This is what my first attempt looked like, after half an hours work on the system:
(For a more convincing demo, see the usabilty-community boxes and arrows-website)
Publicsquare allows users to write to your site, and allows you as editor, to manage the many different citisen journalists you might aquire, to edit and have a dialogue with them before eventually approving and publishing the article.
The website part of the system allows for rating of articles, commenting them, rating (and banning) comments. It also – as I understand it – allows for dynamic prioritizing of articles based on the number of comments and the ratings of each individual article.
PublicSquare is US-based – but two of the four founding fathers are Danes: Lars Pind and Anders Pollas. Publicsquare is technology applied in new ways, adressing the needs of the new, web 2.0’ish, internet. Thumbs up, Lars and Anders!