News {Cookbook}

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Recipes

360 News

Periodically share a list of links one is interested in (a la http://www.instapaper.com/u ) to trusted friends (a la Wikipedia:360-degree feedback ) who can then vote for each (a la http://www.reddit.com/ ) to consume the top ordered list accordingly

• allowing free text comment or link to potentially better material
• in exchange for the time they spend on your list you also vote for their list.
• option "Add to my list" while voting for others lists

Remarks

• UI
  • Ordered list of decreasing font size
  • actions per article : read (possible notification if upvoted by a trustee), delete
• identify criteria to sort (e.g. length, topic, medium, date of publication, author, institution, ...)
  • can be used for ML too but without having a context, i.e. how the trustee perceive the user

Demo

http://fabien.benetou.fr:4567 (when available)

• tools
  • Python 2.6.6 http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/
  • django 1.5.1 https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/
    • https://www.djangopackages.com/
    • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/#lighttpd-setup
  • http://farhadi.ir/projects/html5sortable/
  • https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
    • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-SITE_ID
    • http://web.archive.org/web/20130202050244/http://techstricks.com/django-allauth-tutorial-step-by-step/
  • potentially
    • http://www.instapaper.com/api/full
    • http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/gstarted.html
    • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/contrib/messages/
      • https://github.com/pinax/django-notification

Atlernatives

• http://topixtream.com
  • mostly to find and share new topics
• http://pugmarks.me

News flow

A proper information model matters because it allows through the important trends it distinguishes to provide a stable structure, an set of affordances on which one can add at a fast pace (hopefully in real-time or ideally to prepare even before they are acquired) and thus truly leverage news.

See also

• own experience of ClickingMoments#InformationPropagation through the then "Warez Scene"
• Seedea:Research/Drive
• Seedea:Utopiahanalysis/Utopiahanalysis#BattleOfModels
• Seedea:Research/PhylogeneticFlowProgramming
• Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#InformationCascade

Reclaim the news

News is a process, not a product. One can never passively receive a flow of news but rather will always have to find, select, organize, put in perspective and analyze information.

Proposition

• use "modern" tools to build your own flow of information
• list topics with activity today
  • classify topic by activity, ...
• subscribe to a topic
  1. follow it day after day
  2. see related topics
  3. provide a visualization that displays "impact" news

Repeat periodically.

Risks

• cost of maintenance
• specialization
• bias viewpoint
• lack of external feedback

Tools

• RSS feeds
• Twitter
• http://newsmap.jp
• visualization
• public archives
• ... (see own resources inc. Seedea:Seedea/DATAmatrix, Seedea:Seedea/AImatrix, Seedea:Research/Visualization, etc)

Sources

• OpenData
• http://www.democracynow.org
• Wikileaks
  • OpenLeaks
  • GlobaLeaks
  • some Seeks nodes could facilitate search through such projects
• Wikipedia news section & DBpedia
• http://www.acrimed.org
• ...

Inspired by

• thinking about Walden by Thoreau and my own position toward news
• reconsidering the new tools and datasets I know and the strategical importance of news in daily life, including the social aspect of sharing news
• learning about WikiLeaks "WarLogs" case
• the end of BlogLines.com

Tools

• RSS
• http://www.outilsfroids.net
• overall SemanticWeb in order to tag and classify and connect to other piece if information in near real-time
  • including OpenCalais.com and TextWise.com used on each page of the wiki

Community and Events

• ACRIMED
• Rue89

References

• The Wires that Control the Public Mind by Sheldon Rampton, Google Tech Talks 2008

Inspiration

• ...

To do

• consider a visual way to display if a link on a page has been updated since the last visit
  • a la RSS
  • eventually based on http://page2rss.com
  • see also own Greasemonkey#RevertedPIMLinks displaying links back from wiki pages linking to them
  • consider also browsed page through Firefox sqlite databases
• http://twitter.com/#!/amicel as discussed during LeanStartupEtBusinessModelDecembre10
• to check (partly organized in http://www.quora.com/Does-a-great-personalized-news-service-already-exist/answer/Fabien-Benetou )
  • http://paper.li
  • http://www.promepi.com
  • http://www.xydo.com
  • http://deliverss.com
  • http://pinboard.in
  • http://keepstream.com
  • http://www.genieo.com
  • http://www.feeedy.com
  • explicitely through curation
    • http://gobundlr.com
    • http://www.scoop.it
  • Case study on Identifying Predictive Sources FT Alphaville Disproportionally Interesting Compared to General News in Predicting Stock Returns, Recorded Future Blog 2010
• closed projects
  • cozop.com by the author of LePeupleDesConnecteurs
    • Cozop une plateforme de republication, lecture coopérative, copie, duplicate content, January 2010
• social networks based
  • http://knowabout.it
  • http://www.thesharedweb.com
  • http://topixtream.com
  • what is actually the difference with the much older http://www.delicious.com/network/Utopiah ?!
• older tools used
  • delicious.com
• consider my own process regarding the Fukushima incident of March 2011
  • locating a viable source of new through Twitter
    • http://mitnse.com
      • considering directly using their source (TEPCO) but with supported with additional information (e.g. via Wikipedia or an equivalent of the domain, more specific than Scholarpedia) since it requires some domain expertise
    • taking into account the interest of the involved parties
      • e.g. AREVA and other economical partners of the nuclear industry, political parties leveraging the event as promotion tool always coherent with their ideology
  • to compare with my recent discussion with Thierry regarding politics and the potential decreasing signal/noise ratio as elections approach
    • cf VotingIsALearningProcess
  • to generalize taking into consideration PriorityByEconomicalSystem and Needs
    • if those needs are so important (prioritization should be applied too) then some resource and thus time should be dedicated to it
    • it could result in a systematized OwnConcepts#Epistemotaxis process
• http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/NewFinderInfo