Below is a mockup of a concept I’ve had for a while called NewsMap*, which is a way of curating and annotating the news by storing news stories in a personal categorized dashboard.
NewsMap would allow people to process the news in a more coherent manner, as opposed to jumping from headline to headline, day to day. For example, if someone is interested in MOOCs, they can store an interesting article about MOOCs in the Ed Tech folder on their NewsMap dashboard. Two weeks later, when there’s another front page article about MOOCs, they can drag and drop it to that same folder, and compare the two stories and start to build a narrative of who the players are, what the trends are, etc air max sale.
NewsMap would galvanize people to action through first and foremost supporting their intellectual curiosity and helping them make connections between related news stories (as well as information on the web that isn’t necessarily categorized as “news,” such as organizations, campaigns, emails, and blog posts). Their dashboard would become a visual representation of the connections they make between research, policy, and practice original new balance.
In the long term, this concept is something I plan to integrate into my school mapping project.
Always looking for feedback and assistance 🙂
Thanks,
Julia
*I am aware that the name NewsMap is already taken.
It might be worth thinking more about how this could support collective action rather than simply individual action. There might be a social dimension to such a tool that is designed to galvanize communities of users around topics and facilitate coordinated efforts.
thanks for the comment Erhardt- I was thinking that as well through a social profile of your news dashboard.
NewsMap would allow people to process the news in a more coherent manner, as opposed to jumping from headline to headline, day to day. For example, if someone is interested in MOOCs, they can store an interesting article about MOOCs in the Ed Tech folder on their NewsMap dashboard
Newsmap is better application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.
Or maybe head towards research and development. You can do a fair bit on that. It is a lucrative career option, and is usually a persons &#s#d0;8econ2ary&28221; career. Research agents give you missions that give you data cores, and those data cores can be worth tons of money, especially if you get to level 3+ agents for any given race.There is too much to do in the game for sure, and it doesn’t really hold your hand, but the forum community is very strong, and I suggest taking advantage of it.