MSN gets into the paid blogging game
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
MSN quietly launched last week a preview version of MSN Filter, a cross between a blog and a wiki. MSN made the move a month after MSN officials made it public that they were looking to hire five "freelance contributing editors" to create blogs in the areas of television, music, technology, sports, and fashion/food/style.
MSN Filter updates can be accessed via desktop, email, or phone, and will also be integrated into MSN's Start.com platform.
Adam Sheppard, lead product manager for MSN Filter, said MSN's model " is essentially Nanopublishing as originally championed by Nick Denton at Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc. Both are great blog networks with their own audiences that they'll continue to be successful with."