Very interesting approach -- and it is not taking it as far as you folks have discussed in your ideas.Personal Traffic Alerts, With Made-to-Order DataIn the latest incarnation of traffic reporting, information is being sent using personalized text or voice messages to users’ cellphones or BlackBerrys, often at no charge.
Also, I went over and joined The Exploding Newsroom on Facebook, a group that several of my friends are in. I found a link from there to a blog by a Philadelpia Inquirer reporter about newsy Facebook Apps. It sounds like they are channelling youse guys (that's how they tawk in Philly, trust me, I know). Here's a sample from that post:
What newsrooms or writers have developed Facebook apps that turn Facebook into a distribution channel for their work? Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic has a Facebook group, Atlantic Politics. Chris Cillizza has The Fix, a Facebook group for readers of his work for washingtonpost.com. TechCrunch offers a TechCrunch app that users can use to add to their profiles. Others?
Facebook's Exploding Newsroom group has a whole discussion on Facebook as a venue for news.
Worth checking out, I think ...
enuf for now ...
::Later addition: Yo Rob! There's a post in the Exploding Newsroom by someone else who's seriously into visualizing news: Serial Consign
1 comment:
Feedback from Jordan (Voltron):
I already sent these to Rob, but I'll leave comments here again.
1. I love the idea. Magazines haven't really started looking at the online world as a platform for taking it to the next level. Style.com is probably the most visually appealing place. However, like style.com, this idea seems like it might be hard to get around in. Remember, information overload is called information overload for a reason.
2. I think this is really the next step facebook needs to take. However, I feel like most of my friends are not just annoyed with applications, but don't really read online news, so I'm not sure how much it would help people. I guess it all depends on how you define news. I feel like I would get a lot more hits to Perez Hilton than New York Times. Is there a line drawn?
3. Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly, but can't you often just type stuff into google to see if anyone stole it? Would this instead, automatically do the checking to see if things are coming up on more than one web site? and if so, what about sites like AP that whore their stories out to nearly every major online publications.
4. I don't know how often this would get used but it's a good idea. The technology is there, like many weather sites, track your IP address to give you the weather wherever you are. Or even the top headlines in your area. I feel like it already exists.
5. Very novel idea. However, not extremely innovative. I don't know how much the mood of site would make a difference compared to the content.
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