Okay, so it is New Year’s eve and i definitely have nothing better to do than to review this quite interesting new website/service. I came across Veritocracy by accident yesterday and when i understood what it is all about i concluded that this is potentially a next generation platform for marketers, bloggers or for any other people who write fluent articles and/or reviews in response to what happens around us, or else said in response to the News.

Since i have not yet used this platform – because for now access is only granted with an invitation which i dont yet have* – my comments and overview are based on my intuition of Veritovracy’s potential and, of course, on the Veritocracy’s on-site demo.

In order to be more specific i am following their demo. What Veritocracy can give you is “the best perspectives on any topic”:

“Veritocracy brings together different perspectives on the topics in the news. Dive into a topic on Veritocracy and find the best ideas and analysis from the mainstream media, the blogosphere, and readers across the web.”

Further – Veritocracy is personalised for you!

“Veritocracy uses everyone’s input to find the highest quality articles on the topics that interest you. Each time you vote, Veritocracy learns how effective you are at choosing content for others, as well as how effective they are at choosing for you.”

Veritocracy provides you with Better News:

“By bringing together the best perspectives on the topics that interest you, Veritocracy delivers the highest quality (and most personally relevant) information. To get started, just read and vote on the articles you see.”

And lastly, you can publish on Veritocracy!

“Submit an article, or syndicate your entire RSS feed, and Veritocracy will instantly start feeding your content to new readers. As an author, you can also vote on other people’s articles to help train the system to feed your work to interested readers.”

So, If you’ve been following me till now, it should have dawned to you that this platform holds a great potential for YOU and your work’s exposure. Let’s say that on some term you register there, you link your RSS feeds, your blogs and websites. Once you get a reader from Veritocracy it would mean highly targeted traffic for you, because the system, with users’ help (feedback) evaluates which article published on Veritocracy is suitable for a particular user (the system adapts to every single user individually) and it suggests it to them : ) If you have used Pandora this surely makes sense to you. Veritocracy does the same, but with articles, not music.

Beside high potential exposure for us, the invention of this system means something else as well – value of content is more crucial than ever. Nobody likes spam and scam and nobody likes poor content. The Internet, however, is full of it. Thus, the inventions of such “filter” platforms are welcomed not only by expert publishers, but also by humble readers : ) Since, however, we are at our readers’, far from humble, judgement, we cannot afford to provide them with mediocre content – otherwise we are doomed : )

I have no patience till Veritocracy opens free sign-up access. And i shall wait : ) While waiting, you can go and check these articles about articles : )here – http://articles.psykoid.com

* 01.01.09 EDIT: Well i already have an invitation. And i am just about to start using Veri. Will be publishing further detailed reviews and impressions soon