Thoughts on presentation
Posted by jonathan686 on July 24, 2007
Rough outline of material that should be included in presentation – Medium agnostic – Please feel free to edit!
The Needs
- Interaction with local news
- Facilitation of citizen-journalists
The Audience
- Citizens seeking hyper-local access and interaction
- PEW research on under 36
The Challenge
- Provide local news sources with an easy-to-use online tool to facilitate community interaction and dialogue.
The Literature – O’Reilly’s Web 2.0
Web 2.0 news sources should:
- *Provide a service, not a software package
- *Control unique, difficult to replicate data sources that get richer the more individuals contribute to them
- *Trust users as co-developers
- *Harness collective intelligence
- Leverage the long tail through customer service.
- Provide software above the level of a single device
- *Use lightweight user interfaces, development models, and business models
* = addressed by our idea
The Idea
One, easy to use web application for news sources that includes
- user-created, geographically displayed news and information
- coupled with editorial controls for wary news outlets
Overview
- User-submitted interface
- Editor interface – to push through user and staff articles
- Display
Behind the Scenes
- Google Maps API
- Mapplets
- mySQL
