Seit 2004 existiert die Nachrichtensite Topix. Ähnlich wie bei Google News werden dort Nachrichten aus den verschiedensten Online-Quellen zusammengefasst, gruppiert nach regionalen Gesichtspunkten und nach Themen. Über eine interessante Neuerung berichtet Rich Skrenta gleich in zwei Blogbeiträgen: Reinventing Topix und What do you do when your success... sucks?.

Today we're inviting members from local communities to sign up and help edit the news. Our system is structured in many ways similar to Wikipedia, or our previous project, the Open Directory (dmoz.org). Topix editors have the ability to post news locally, either from the news stream we are aggregating, from our local forums, or new items of their own. We also have tiers of editors which will have the ability to help moderate our growing forums, and help the broader editor base work within our editorial guidelines.