• Buzzmachine, Monday, September 15, 2008 10:30 AM

Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown says her new project, an aggregate news site called the "Daily Beast," will use more than 20 editors -- rather than Googlelike algorithms - to capture the daily zeitgeist.

She says her goal is to "cut through all this static on Web, fake stuff and noise. It is the time for editors to reassert themselves, to curate in a more rigorous way. There is room for more meta-aggregation with a distinctive voice."

Not everyone agrees. Notes one blog respondent: "There is always the notion from old-school editorial types that what the Web needs is a good set of editors. But having been on the business side long enough, I have never seen the economics" for that approach."

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