Brijit is an online community that offers up the world’s best long-form content by boiling it down to 100 word abstracts. You can then peruse the abstracts to determine what you what to read, listen to, or watch. The sources Brijit pulls from can be stories, like magazine articles, but they can also be radio or video shows, too. The summaries are sorted into 15 different subject areas like Politics, Entertainment, Science & Tech, Travel, Home, etc., each with their own RSS feed. Brijit’s list of sources is even larger, pulling in articles from popular print media like Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, The Economist, Marie Claire, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, Details, BusinessWeek, and so many more. You can get involved at Brijit by writing abstracts for them. If yours is chosen, you earn $5 (or $8 for an audio/video source like a TV program. See, I was right – people do read, they are just doing it online. Awesomeness.
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I like your site a lot, Sarah. Just discovered it when this post popped up in a Google alert. Interesting content, clean design. Good stuff. And, of course, thanks for the notice — I’ll take “awesomeness” as a description for Brijit any day of the week! Glad to know you like what we’re doing.
Saw your post from the other day, and wanted to point out that, we’ve got a pretty good widget, too. Once you register for Brijit, just head over to your profile, and you can pick up a widget that’ll share some of the worlds best content, pretty much however you want. Hope you’ll check it out.
I’d also be interested in talking about how we might work with you as you build Grand Effect. Will be in touch.
Best,
Jeremy Brosowsky
founder, Brijit