Technorati has announced its partnership with the Associated Press to connect bloggers to more than 440 AP member newspapers nationwide.
When readers visit an AP member Web site that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the “Top Five Most Blogged About” AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati. Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will deliver “Who’s Blogging About” that article. Now, if you have commentary about an AP story, you can get mentioned in that module simply by linking to that AP news URL, akin to what you can do with Washington Post articles, Newsweek articles, Der Spiegel articles, and a host of other media partners that currently work with Technorati.
The Washington Post has been doing this for quite some time now. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like at WP:
And according to The Ca t, who first noticed this months ago, it could drive a huge amount of traffic to your blog.
Will this move kick-start/open the gates for citizen media?
haynaku, yugz, marami na yatang beses akong nisama pero i like the first one kasi sabi mo nga nag-iisa lang ako. hehehe SOLO ko ang mundo. Either ako lang ang nagblog o noon, kaunti pa lang ang nagkainterest noon. tingnan mo sinabit ko sa aking wall(dingding/sidebar).