Feed back from Chris Raine in Team C from KU...

Here's some feedback for UNLV's ideas: 1. I'm not so sure about this one. It seems to me that it wouldn't be that terribly different than a normal website, except you can only access certain pages by going through the sequence rather than going directly to where you want to go. Slides, as I understand this idea, would really just be kind of like webpages, and it seems a lot like a Flash program. Perhaps with more explanation I would better understand what makes this unique. 2. I like the idea of providing the news using an adsense-like program, but my big fear would be that it would be a very complex, and possibly very annoying application. This idea has a lot of potential, but it would have to work very well to justify the adsense-esque collection of news rather than simply allowing users to specify what topics or geographies they want. That said, this is a very intriguing idea, and it's definitely worth exploring. 3. This is a good idea. So good, in fact, that I think it might already exist, at least in a limited form. The key, as you stated, would be to create the very complex algorithm/program that could effectively aggregate and compare stories to determine if plagiarism took place. 4. I like the idea of hyperlocal news, and it sounds like that would definitely be this idea's angle. This sounds at least somewhat similar to one of Ithaca's ideas, as well as our hyperlocal wiki idea. The cell phone/GPS/physical location angle is interesting, and is worth exploring, although I'll be honest, it kind of makes me think of Big Brother. 5. This idea sounds very interesting. An immediate concern is that it may throw any supposed objectivity over the side. A story that is presented as "sad" will automatically influence readers to interpret the information a certain way. Kind of like journalistic bias in a graphic form. Still, very intriguing, and could be useful for certain types of stories, particularly soft news and stuff like that.