Nov 22, 2008

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NY Post - Page 6

The New York Post gave us a quick mention after the launch party.

Read Write Web

Technorati's 10th most popular blog in the world gave us a positive review just before the Personal Democracy Forum!

DownloadSquad

One of the top software news blogs on the Net, DownloadSquad picked us up organically, and get what we're doing as well (if not better) than we do!

Ameritocracy is full of diverse issues and opinions, so if you can't get worked up over the election, maybe you have an opinion on propositions like, "The mobile phone may be the most potent tool ever invented for the elimination of poverty."

Errol Louis on Air America

NYC radio host Errol Louis interview Bobby on the second morning of the Personal Democracy Forum. About half of the 25-min interview was about Ameritocracy and how we're influencing the state of information in politics and the media. Great host, great questions, great job Bobby.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

May 8, 2008 - Seattle P-I - online and in-print!

It is often said that a democracy only works if the citizens are well informed. Ameritocracy.com is hoping that it can do its part to keep the wheels of democracy moving. The Seattle startup is developing a new online service that allows readers to rate the credibility and relevance of political news stories and politicians' comments.

Blog version here.

Wikinomics

The experts in how mass collaboration changes industries, governments, people and... well, everything, as they say.

Disclosure: Mike Dover, VP of Syndicated Research for the think tank behind this blog, is an adviser of ours.

Flynn's Harp

Mike Flynn Blog, Flynn's Harp Mike Flynn has an incredible journalism career, including serving as the publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal for 24 years. He wrote about us here.

Digital Politics

On June 22nd, Karen Jagoda, the host of Digital Politics as well as the founder of the non-partisan E-Voter Institute, interviewed Porter about what Ameritocracy is, how it combines concise content with transparency and reputation scores to create an incentive for quality information, and how this might impact politics. Also on the show was renowned pollster Mark Mellman.

Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet

June 16, 2008 - Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet blog

Porter Bayne is the creator of a new online community called Ameritocracy.com, a site that allows users to read what politicians actually say, comment on their speeches, and rate the comments of other people. Think of it as a type of fact-checking site for people who don't have lots of free time to read candidate speeches for themselves.

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Obama Girl

If you watch the video from the Personal Democracy Forum, you'll see Porter at his smoothest.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

More on Ameritocracy -- the new online political truth telling Web site -- from ReadWriteWeb, which describes it as a new political site to help "people cut through the noise and rate and review political information for credibility and relevance." I covered the Seattle startup -- led by Porter Bayne -- last month.

The Waving Cat

A few days ago I wrote a brief post about Ameritocracy, a collaborative fact-checking platform with a focus on U.S. politics. The Ameritrocracy team got back to me and was so nice to provide my readers with a bunch of invites to the close beta so you can check it out yourself.

Museum of Modern Betas

Cool / "random"! Ameritocracy was the 5,555th beta test listed on the Museum of Modern Betas! "The MoMB just crossed the 5555 betas mark (the 5555th app listed is the super sharp Ameritocracy.)"

The Waving Cat (again)

If there's one thing the internet is pretty good at, then it must be crunching lots of info by having a lot of folks look at said info. Call it crowdsourcing or collaboration, if you need a great many eyes to look at stuff, and a lot of opinions, the web is the place to go. So here comes Ameritocracy, a community-based, collaborative fact-checking site.

Killer Startups

Debate is the name of the game on Ameritocracy.com. Users log on to post questionable statements made by politicians on this open forum, starting an open discussion on what exactly that individual meant to say. From here, users comment on and rate that individual's intention and credibility. The purpose of the site is to generate dialogue among users with different opinions, hence representing all sides of the spectrum, and leading other users to evaluate all sides of a quote when making their own assessment. Posted statements reflect thoughts on the war in Iraq, the 2008 U.S. presidential race, and various other hot topics in the political world. Ameritocracy is a fantastic site for engaging in a good old fashioned political debate. Users have the opportunity to learn the various perspectives that other people have on different political issues.

Planblog

I just signed up for Ameritocracy, a new social web app (currently in beta) for collaborative fact-checking ...

KevinBondelli.com - Youth Vote, Technology, Politics

The site shows the most and least credible sources according to the votes of its users, and it serves as a good indicator of the perceptions of different statements flying around the media.

TechPresident Daily Digest

IPDI's Julie Germany has a Q&A with Porter Bayne, the creator of Ameritocracy, a gorgeously-designed very 2.0 new community centered around having your say on what comes out of politicians' mouths.

Rude Truth

Wikinomics: Wikinomics in Action

Added today: aMeritocracy.com. Beta coming soon - "thousands of voices compete for our attention every day. Which ones can you trust?"