Comments on: Micro-connections and the speed of news http://www.davidherrold.com/2008/12/04/micro-connections-and-the-speed-of-news/ β€œTo condense fact from the vapor of nuance.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: G http://www.davidherrold.com/2008/12/04/micro-connections-and-the-speed-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-841 G Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:02:31 +0000 http://www.davidherrold.com/?p=325#comment-841 David, I think there is a spark of something really interesting here when you merge this idea with <a href="http://www.newsless.org" rel="nofollow">Matt Thompson's ideas</a> about bringing context to journalism. Imagine a not-so-far-distant world where newspaper groups make a concerted effort to build topic pages that weave together people, places, things, and ideas that show up regularly in articles. I'm thinking something like <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/bill_richardson/index.html" rel="nofollow">Times Topics</a> or <a href="http://www.daylife.com/topic/Bill_Richardson" rel="nofollow">Daylife</a>, but it could just as easily be some permutation of a wikipedia model. Now imagine, you've learned a little bit from some of the new best practices of putting up local business listings...allowing folks to suggest updates/corrections and putting up a button allowing the owner to claim their page. What you've created at this point is the foundation of a public social network...the key is that instead of having the connections being made between friends, the connections are now being made between what you and the folks who are behind the the people, places, things that are of interest to you. David,
I think there is a spark of something really interesting here when you merge this idea with Matt Thompson’s ideas about bringing context to journalism.

Imagine a not-so-far-distant world where newspaper groups make a concerted effort to build topic pages that weave together people, places, things, and ideas that show up regularly in articles. I’m thinking something like Times Topics or Daylife, but it could just as easily be some permutation of a wikipedia model.

Now imagine, you’ve learned a little bit from some of the new best practices of putting up local business listings…allowing folks to suggest updates/corrections and putting up a button allowing the owner to claim their page.

What you’ve created at this point is the foundation of a public social network…the key is that instead of having the connections being made between friends, the connections are now being made between what you and the folks who are behind the the people, places, things that are of interest to you.

]]> By: IwasFramed http://www.davidherrold.com/2008/12/04/micro-connections-and-the-speed-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-840 IwasFramed Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:47:41 +0000 http://www.davidherrold.com/?p=325#comment-840 Sorry for the wrong website Sorry for the wrong website

]]> By: IwasFramed http://www.davidherrold.com/2008/12/04/micro-connections-and-the-speed-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-839 IwasFramed Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:46:28 +0000 http://www.davidherrold.com/?p=325#comment-839 Perfect example: During Hurricane Ike I lost all power in sugarland at the height of the storm only communication I received was from twitter posts via http://twitter.com/KTRKHouston which has since been shutdown.. Perfect example: During Hurricane Ike I lost all power in sugarland at the height of the storm only communication I received was from twitter posts via http://twitter.com/KTRKHouston which has since been shutdown..

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