Moby Dick Project - Revision history

MobyDick at 17:38, 2 November 2011

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 How do trusted commenters' contributions bubble up?
 What role does sentiment analysis play?

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2011-10-31T23:44:08Z

The Idea

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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:		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?		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?		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?		How do trusted commenters' contributions bubble up?
	What role does sentiment analysis play?		What role does sentiment analysis play?


			CURRENT GOAL: Designing a better fact-checking workflow for fast-paced news bloggers, which we could elaborate on with implementation-specific aspects like "wordpress plugin", "browser extension", "collaboration platform", etc., and/or functional aspects like "publicly visible writer/editor/fact-checker interactions", "reader-contributions", "inline semantic links", "margin notes", etc.

MobyDick at 16:43, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T16:43:27Z

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	...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.		...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:		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:

MobyDick at 16:42, 28 October 2011

2011-10-28T16:42:47Z

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	== The Idea ==		== 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.
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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?

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2011-10-25T20:10:51Z

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