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We've gone down a few roads while prototyping, ranging from what a “Salesforce for journalists” might look like to the idea of a semantic ontology for news. Our core idea is that bloggers and journalists on deadline need more expedient access to a high-quality global knowledge base. | |||
...which we're sticking with, but the precise users we're going after now are professional bloggers (perhaps freelance) who write several columns/posts per day, use inline hyperlinks excessively, and are read widely enough to garner a significant amount of comment/Twitter/Facebook chatter. | |||
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We've been expanding on the Back-Story and Data-Check + API ideas from the summer d.school session (and are considering how reader observations might be made to work harder for journalists). We think that over-worked journalists on deadline need more expedient access to a high-quality global knowledge base (an idea that we're discussing with journalists), and we're exploring the following: | |||
How can comments (which are largely forgotten about at the end of current stories) better point to what's working with a story and where more information is needed? | |||
Would a journalist-only tool for marking comments and tweets for future exploration be helpful to journalists? Could this create a pipeline for related stories? | |||
How do trusted commenters' contributions bubble up? | |||
What role does sentiment analysis play? | |||
Revision as of 11:42, 28 October 2011
Moby Dick Project
The Idea
We've gone down a few roads while prototyping, ranging from what a “Salesforce for journalists” might look like to the idea of a semantic ontology for news. Our core idea is that bloggers and journalists on deadline need more expedient access to a high-quality global knowledge base.
...which we're sticking with, but the precise users we're going after now are professional bloggers (perhaps freelance) who write several columns/posts per day, use inline hyperlinks excessively, and are read widely enough to garner a significant amount of comment/Twitter/Facebook chatter. _______________________________
We've been expanding on the Back-Story and Data-Check + API ideas from the summer d.school session (and are considering how reader observations might be made to work harder for journalists). We think that over-worked journalists on deadline need more expedient access to a high-quality global knowledge base (an idea that we're discussing with journalists), and we're exploring the following: How can comments (which are largely forgotten about at the end of current stories) better point to what's working with a story and where more information is needed? Would a journalist-only tool for marking comments and tweets for future exploration be helpful to journalists? Could this create a pipeline for related stories? How do trusted commenters' contributions bubble up? What role does sentiment analysis play?