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New Web site offers a BigBark

Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
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A new Web site has launched, BigBark, that offers a way for readers and bloggers to help get news stories heard above the din of all the white noise on the Internet.

"BigBark is a political Web site that seeks to make sense of the complicated, spin-driven world of political news," the site says.

Like Digg and the new Netscape.com site, BigBark lets people post news stories and blogs and vote for the ones they like the most. Those are then pushed to the top of the page.

Topics include politics and elections; war and national defense; environment and energy; media and culture; race and gender; and science, religion and education.

On Thursday, top stories included an article about President Bush vetoing a stem cell bill, a piece that looked at a study on how shellfish are at risk owing to the burning of fossil fuels, and a hilarious clip from The Colbert Report. In the clip, Colbert grills Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland on his proposal to display the Ten Commandments in government buildings and whether he considers himself to be a "Georgia Peach" or not.