I hear where you're coming from here. At True/Slant, Contributors are absolutely central to what we are. I'm not sure if it's just nomenclature - and perhaps t

I hear where you're coming from here. At True/Slant, Contributors are absolutely central to what we are. I'm not sure if it's just nomenclature - and perhaps the differences between our "contribs" and NewsTilt's "clients" will be more apparent once you've launched. I can say, though, that we work our asses off for our contributors. When we design, it's with Contribs in front-of-mind. When we build new tools and features, their interactions are foremost. We recruit each of them personally and provide advertising, distribution, SEO and other services on top of a dead-simple self-publishing platform. As I said, (above and in another comment below), our offerings are going to be different from one another as we're different teams with different sets of goals and experience. I'm very interested in what NewsTilt is bringing to the game - we both seem interested in keeping journalism thriving. Congrats on your launch, on your backing from YC and for your pre-launch piece on TechCrunch. All the best to you and your team.