The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and the San Francisco Chronicle plan to syndicate bloggers' content on their sites through a service called BlogBurst from Pluck, reports TechCrunch (via MicroPersuasion). Those who blog about travel, women's issues, technology/gadgets, food/entertainment, among other topics, may apply to join the network; they must provide a full-text RSS feed, with no ads, to participate.
SearchEngineJournal postulates that the syndicated blog content will eventually make it into the print versions as well.
BlogBurst will charge publishers for the service and include the blogger's byline and a link back to the blog. Initial reports said the service would pay bloggers only with glory, not revenue share.
Subsequently, however, Pluck CEO Dave Panos commented on TechCrunch, "We will provide a blogger compensation model after we get through the beta period. We simply need time to discover usage patterns and land on the right monetization model with publishers and bloggers."
