From the Globe and Mail's Ingram 2.0 column of June 17:

NowPublic.com, a leading Vancouver-based "citizen-journalism" site that allows users from around the world to post their comments, photos and video of news events, has relaunched its website with new features. Among them is the ranking of contributors to the site on the basis of their activity level, so that other users can gauge how trustworthy their contributions are likely to be. ...

Another new feature is that NowPublic users can now pull in their content from other social-media sites such as Flickr and YouTube instead of having to post their photos or videos or stories in several different places at the same time. NowPublic chief executive officer Leonard Brody says the site calls this a "presence stream." Users are also able to create a customized "news dashboard" on their profile pages at the site, with the photos, news and video they are interested in from sources they can specify.