Knewsroom Krocks

I tried Kluster's new project Knewsroom out yesterday. At first I almost didn't sign up. It just seemed like a Digg ripoff and it almost didn't grab my attention but then I read that you can use points called Watts to invest into stories that you like. If the story makes it then bling-bling ka ching you get a return on the amount of points that you invested. On top of that you get a share of the ad revenue that the story generates in the form of cash flo' money. Once you reach a certain amount, they pop it on a Master Card.

So I signed up and took a risk and dumped 80% of my Watts into a story about the release of Fedora 9. Don't hate, I like to support linux, even though it isn't my sweet rolling Ubuntu. I also put small amounts into a few other stories but at least I didn't brown nose and drop a ton of Watts into this story about the launch of Kluster's new project Knewspaper, Duh! Your on it, you know this already. I mean come on, that is stupid and so many people invested in that not because it was a good story but because they wanted a high return on what they invested in. I hope silly trends like that don't continue.

I think the concept and idea behind Knewsroom is solid as camel poop in the snow and I hope it keeps churning along like Thomas the Train but honestly, lets hope that people don't continue to take the safe road to glory. Lets use our Watts to get the goods out there.