I just signed up to a site that’s going to allow me to add some great content to my blogs. The site is called The News Room. This site will allow me to include news stories in the form of video, video feeds, images or text articles to my posts.

The content is fully licensed and comes from major content providers such as the Associate press and Reuters.

What’s really great about The News Room is that by using content from the site I can actually make some money. Yeah, content and some extra cash too. I think it’s a pretty sweet deal.

If you want to join in, all you need to do is visit the site and sign up, and then simply browse through the various categories until you find an interesting news story that suits your site. All you need to do at that point is Mash to content. By this I mean just push the mash button in the top right corner of the content and then follow the instructions which allow you to set up how the content looks on your site and then copy the code to paste into your article. It’s really easy.

I was happy to see that I could even find cool video content that suits this site like this news story about Criss Angel the magician. Yesterday he climbed into a cube encased in concrete that suspended 40 feet over the ground near Times Square:

The bonus part about using content from The News Room is two fold.

1. I get paid a certain amount per every thousand views (CPM) for the content I add to my site, and the payout is decent. The lowest is $1 per CPM, and the highest is $4 per CPM. When you consider that a lot of affiliate ads that you can run on your sites, perhaps in your sidebars only pay about .15 per CPM you realize that this could be a pretty good way to make some cash.

2. If someone comes along and they like the video or text article that you’ve added to your post they too can click on that Mash button in the top right of the added content and add it to their own site, and you still make some money by their using the content that they got from your site.

Check it out for yourself. It’s free to use and there’s a great selection of news items to chose from. You won’t be disappointed.

I’ve been checking out a new News site, it’s called Newgie.com. It seems like a good way to get the latest news and to discover what other Newgie members are reading most often.

The newgie site offer a rating system for the various news stories. You can use your mouse to hover over an article that you’ve read and a box will pop up that lets you recommend the story for other readers, discuss it by leaving a comment, or even add it to your favorites.

What I like about this site, when I compare it to Yahoo News- which is where I always used to go to read up on the latest news items is the rating system. The newgie system keeps track of what the other members are reading most often and as a result, when you sign in and check your ” My Newgie” page you’ll see the most popular articles of the day all in one easy to use listing. Yahoo news doesn’t list the news in this manner- yes it does list the most popular stories world wide, but with Newgie you know that the popular stories that you see first are the ones that are most popular with Newgie members.

The Newgie site also lets it’s members submit their RSS feed. If it’s accepted you can add a chicklet to your site so that you can easily share your feed with other newgie subscribers. Pretty cool if you ask me.

It’s really easy to register on the site and your membership is free. Once you are registered, you can start selecting news categories that you want to see when you first visit your newgie page. The site ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown.

Navigating through the Newgie site is pretty easy to do too. Visit your My Newgie page and if you’ve already set up your preferences all the stories from the topics and categories that you selected will be there for you to browse through, or you can click on your My account page and set up your preferences there, see the stories that you’ve viewed most recently, and manage your categories, RSS feeds and communities.