Analyst’s Edge: "News the Crowd Can Use"

There’s a great article today on Wired.com covering user generated news sites. The article is short, very readable, and serves as a great backdrop to our launch of Analyst’s Edge earlier this week.

The jury is still out on the public’s ability to vet information, but the very existence of social editing indicates that a fundamental shift is occurring in way people think about news. Users of social editing sites are no longer passive media consumers. Instead they see media as a live discussion in which the public deserves a voice equal to that of an editor.

It is our hope that users will take the Analyst’s Edge site as their own, submit news, and vote up stories that they think are worthwhile reads. There are too many barriers between consumers of finance industry news and the producers of it. Too many sites have bizarre registration rules, crappy RSS feeds (or none at all), poor organization and usability, and little or no interactivity.

We have built Analyst’s Edge with the goal of eliminating these barriers and getting good news to people who want it…news the finance crowd can use.

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