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Ballack gives the impression of playing with a striped blazer tossed nonchalantly over his shoulder and a silver-topped cane in his hand. How he is putting in more yardage than Torsten Frings, football’s answer to a border collie, is a mystery.
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“Ten years ago, cameras were much rarer than they are today. And in 10 years, they’ll be so small you won’t even notice them…The time to address appropriate limits on this technology is before the cameras fade from notice.”
Developing slow news: the BBC
I got a fair amount of questions and feedback on my Slow News post of a few weeks ago, and I wanted to develop it further.
My essential proposition is this: that news media is still focussed on the day-to-day “the river of news” rather than contextualising issues and providing information for decoding important stuff. The analogy I used in the original post was that of an object in a darkened room. Currently, most news media seek to reveal that object by shining individual beams of very bright light, in the form of news stories which are catalysed by external events, for instance a politician’s speech or an election cycle. Wouldn’t it be better if there was a way to turn the room’s ceiling light on and reveal the issue in as multi-faceted a way as possible?
I called the attempt to do this, through explanation of context and curating over time, “slow news”. I argued that Wikipedia does it best because it places a topic at a URL and adds detail and context around that subject over time, rather than placing each individual item of new information about a subject on a new URL (as a news organisation does with stories).
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From a comment on my Slow News post, I was pointed at Dipity, and set myself up on it. It’s lovely.
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Is this the end of the aggregation fad?
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Go on, you know you’ve wanted to do this yourself before….
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Subtitle: What SEO Does To News Journalism At The Telegraph
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“BarackObama.com is a great example of crowd-sourcing, but it’s a far cry from even a fledgling effort at open source democracy.” Good stuff from Rushikoff.
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It’s Jay-Z! It’s the weather! No, it’s the simple fact that Glastonbury isn’t cool anymore - and none of us has any spare cash.
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Including a single site for London. And yet they still can’t find “London stories” for the BBC London TV news. Odd that.
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“But who speaks for and uncovers the data? And what mobilises us around facts and their interpretation?”
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Tim Joyce and Jenny Paton and their children were put under surveillance by Poole Borough Council for more than two weeks without their knowledge.
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“Teenagers no longer rendezvous. They swarm. They set off to meet each other and change their meeting point according to some strange new form of mathematics that can calculate where the majority of them will be at any given moment.” Brilliant.
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“Martha Stewart has been refused a visa to Britain because of her criminal convictions for obstructing justice, the Daily Telegraph has learned.” Finally, something we can all be proud of.
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Daylife opening up its technology to allow any site to build topic pages using their underlying tech.
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“And even without statistics to back this up, I think it’s anecdotally safe to assume that sensationalistic “guy thrown in jail” stories get more traffic mojo than paragraph-long “guy acquitted” stories wedged into a regional roundup.”
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“A national public service platform like this would be a public good, a freely accessible toolset, meeting place and notice-board.”
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“All six of the feet have been found since August 2007 in the Strait of Georgia, or in the nearby mouth of the Fraser River. All have been right feet except the fifth, which was discovered on Monday.”