Constantin Basturea has launched a New PR site that enables readers to vote for articles on public relations topics.

Constantin is also the force behind the PubSub PR Community list and the NewPR Wiki. Here he is delivering yet another concept to draw PR practitioners together as a community.

On the New PR site, bloggers submit their news articles from their sites using an easy posting form. Posters may submit an image and a summary of their article, both of which will appear with the article title and URL on the New PR site. Articles can also be assigned to an appropriate PR category (e.g. blog relations, employee communication, ethics.)

Visitors to the site can comment on an article or “promote” it by casting a vote. Tabs enable the visitor to view the most recently posted articles or the headlines of articles ranked by number of votes.

Appealing to the “ego factor”, the site also shows registered users how many “Props” they have received for articles they posted.

A Forum allows visitors to conduct discussions on a traditional discussion board. Not surprisingly, one of the first strings dealt with the issue of bloggers voting for their own articles.

Bottom line: Yet another intriguing riff on social media from Constantin. Digg it!