Monday, August 18, 2008

The Future of News

Are media companies going to go extinct?

Maybe, each consumer of news will have a personal journalist on its payroll. OK, maybe not each consumer, but a group of consumers who can pay a group of journalists.

Steaming Pile of Brain Dumo

Length of funny face mouth for joke score

Joke bucket

Great way to put ads in plentyoffish

Relavence of the material submitted should be rated

Users can insert a link to "rant"

Best cartoon
Best rant
Best joke

Joke connecting multiple news stories

Allow communication amongst users with IM and PM

Use liberal/conservative tendencies for clarity vs. ambiguity, as
shown in the research using M and W

LONG TERM
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Finance Related
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Sell certain data, such as how many and what stocks are in downturn.
The kind of information not easily available But not worth to write
code (most people dont write code)

Others
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A weighted decision tree. Change weights of different nodes and see
which decision is the best

Repository of all statistical data. number of students in a class, in a
school, number of houses etc etc

Discussion threads with two panes. One where ur own messages and their
replies available. Other where all are available

Hiring expert over the internet to, for example, buy a car, a TV,
insurance etc. The export can do all the research and charge the fee.

Central place where all research and news about safe living (housing,
driving, products) is contributed by user. Maybe find correlation of
diseases to certain products. Information provided converts to points.
More points can allow more leverage, such as you ad (for lets say
renting a drill machines) will be higher up in the listings

How about this. Alternative narrative of fact presented in the story

How to follow a new story or other article. discover truth/falsehood in
a position (trying to do that with wephoria).
. Derivative: Search using the statistics generated by the "critiquing"
process.
. How about analyzing news story given a certain logical rules. Such as
. identify narrative fallacy, confirmatory bias, etc.
. Journalists can get ratings
. Discovery of trends (like consistent biases) from a source
(writer/news agency)

Book about shortest path/path of least resistance used in finance,
politics, business

Lies of govt. site. useless statements site

Macro policies. Empiricially prove if some policies
are bettern than others. Sink into people's mind

How can I give somebody a gift online in a single click? Like single
click to gift a book from amazon

Color coding of message boards/news stories etc.

Can use this for evaluating news stories
http://www.paulgraham.com/labels.html
Ranking pages based on how many verifiable facts it has

network, where u invite frinds. discuss news stories.
create groups of alike thinkers. Then inject a flamer, a person or
an idea (like a news story)

Price products in components. e.g price laptop using its individual
component. will give a better idea in what to buy and what not to buy.
This idea can be combined with the idea mentioned below

Voting of links/comments within groups. Can also use the idea about
easily emailing stories to your friend/group

Source the product. Where and in what parts, your money is going when
you buy a product

have timelines, past and present, splitting into alternate path. let
others construct your past and future

raw: correlation

discuss article amongst friends/closed groups
have list of emails to send a URL/text to
Private anonymous email threads

neighborhood rental

Political candidate dossiers

Correlation between curriculum and desired jobs

Micro information about school's curriculum

Annotate web page

Products: Vertical moverment of tuners symbolizing features of a product
will change the price of the product

Grocery: local grocery shopping

Apparel: Local apparel shopping

Stock: Let users provide a model. Others can see it by payment. Provided
will share the subscription fee

Search for patterns into everything

News: Glimpse of histroy through news

Lean-mean surveillence software, that goes through all content acquired
by user and classifies the user