PoynterOnline: HuffPo’s “Impact”

Tenore, M. J. (2009, October 25). Huffington Post’s ‘Impact’ lets readers donate to people in the news. PoynterOnline. Retrieved October 26, 2009, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=172262

I’m excited that Arianna Huffington will be visiting Ithaca College!  The new “Impact” feature sounds brilliant.  I think it would be especially useful in local news stories if other outlets adapt a similar model. Here is “Impact”.

There was also an interesting story w/ reader commentary in paidContent about the site’s popularity:

Kramer, S. D. (2009, October 19). HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau: ‘We Are Now In The Big Leagues’ | paidContent. Retrieved October 26, 2009, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-huffpo-ceo-eric-hippeau-we-are-now-in-the-big-leagues/