Interesting new startup...ordinary everyday Web surfers
getting paid (barely) to write 100-word summaries of longer
artcles...sort of a Wikipedia-like verson of Readers Guide
Abstracts. 
Jonathan Kay has written a brief column about it for
Canada's National post:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=350929
An excerpt from Kay's column:
"Brijit.com synthesizes articles from magazines and
newspapers into mini-reviews of 100 or fewer words...All of
the Brijit summaries are written by ordinary web surfers.
When a magazine publishes a new issue, Brijit's editors put
the contents out for "assignment." Anyone can log
on, pick an article that looks interesting and take a crack
at writing a summary."
Brijit.com's "about" page:
http://brijit.co
m/about/about_brijit
Bernie Sloan
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