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A couple of Dutch entrepreneurs have launched a Digg look-alike news aggregation site devoted to climate and environmental issues. The new Web 2.0 site, Climezine.com, enables users to post links to content, add comments and vote for stories in a similar manner to Digg, Netscape and other aggregation sites.
Climezine is divided into different channels
covering different environmental aspects and contains a tag identifying
the geographic region a particular news item covers. News, as well as
pictures and video clips, on air, water, nature, health effects or
climate change can be put on the site once a visitor has
registered.
Founders Maarten Blokdijk and Eric van den Berg from The Hague , say
they were influenced by Al Gore’s "wake-up call" when he released his
film An Inconvenient Truth.
Blokdijk has an IT company specializing in Web 2.0 and content
management solutions while van den Berg is an environmental campaigner.
A quick look at the site shows that it appears to have been seeded with
links to about 200 articles on environmental issues. It is not exactly
clear if the voting system is working properly yet because the few
articles with a number of votes are sitting on latter pages rather than
near the front.
It remains to be seen whether a single issue site like Climezine.com
can garner enough interest to flourish or whether established sites
like Digg, which has an environment stream, already services the market
sufficiently.
David Bass
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