Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know. A problem with online comments is that they are often unfocused and off-topic given the open nature of many commenting systems.

Asking the right questions is critical in getting compelling answers from sources, as all reporters know.

Yahoo! researcher Yury Lifshits has built a tool called Interview2010 that aims to help get better answers from readers through a structured question and answer system. The readers can share their answers through social networks, and publishers can use the content on their sites.

Yury has written up a set of questions relating to our last panel on personalized news, which has already generated several responses. Go see what people have written and give your own take on the issue at http://hackshackers.com/interviews/.

Hear Yury talk more about his project in this video: