Yelp Citizen Journalism Model Ready to Go!?

Yelp sits in the drivers seat to unleash one of the world’s most interesting and best citizen journalism prototypes.

With thousand of citizen journalist style real reviews posted daily, and an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of testimonials, Yelp is essentially nothing more than a citizen journalism mecca.

Review site sure, but beyond this it is a actually a functional model of how citizen journalism can make it’s way into the mainstream and actually serve a purpose.{{{gold}}}

Tie this into a media syndication model and you suddenly create both a way for Yelp to be profitable and compensate it’s contributors. Will they recognize this opportunity at hand? I hope so and I’d love to speak with them if they do.

Otherwise they might as well start deleting those review once they more than a year old.