Talk:DKos Buzz Report

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--Pyrrho 17:30, 2 Aug 2004 (PDT) Bgod... this is cool. a couple thoughts/questions.

(1) Is this collaborative... what editing rules do you imagine? (2) following on that... it reminds me of the yahoo buzz stuff, where they use their site statistics to show what's hot (what's currently being searched for)... is this part of the idea. I could see using diaries at dkos to identify the stories that are capturing attention (multiple diaries... lots of comments) and linking those... cheers.

--bgod 20:08, 2 Aug 2004 (PDT) Thanks, Pyrrho..

(1) Definitely collaborative. That was my intention from the start. There are many Kossacks who post diaries simply to alert readers to breaking news every day.. Hopefully a few will find their way over. Haven't thought too much about rules. Let's see...

Probably something about keeping images to a minimum (see centerfielder's comment below).

Keep the format bare bones, but we can eventually stray from the Drudge look.

Feel free to massage the headlines to make them 'correct' from a dKos/Democrat's POV.

Headlines can linger for a day or two.. or even longer if they have been ignored by the corporate media.

Avoid sensational stories (eg, Kobe, M.Jackson), stick to things of political importance or relevance... naturally this is a little bit of a gray area and you can argue almost anything is political in a general sense, but the idea is to avoid tabloid stories and stick to things that push our causes forward. For example, Spike Lee's new movie isn't really news, but the subject matter (greed, etc) may be worth promoting. Drudge is a good model, only spun in the other direction.

Opinion/editorials are acceptable in small numbers, preference should be given to news items

The usual wiki and dKosopedia rules apply (2) Yeah, sort of somewhere in between These are the all hot topics being discussed at dkos and Here are all the latest news headlines that might be of interest to dKos readers. More the latter though, which I find drives the former anyway. Linking back to dKos diaries is a fine idea, as long as it doesn't detract from the main goal of providing a simple view of all the current news. Imagine CNN Headline News if it were run by kos.. and then you have the idea :)

--Centerfielder 20:11, 23 Jul 2004 (PDT) Bgod, I like where you're going with this, and for the time being the dKosopedia is as good a place as any to start. Thinking about it some:

instead of Drudge, a better model to emulate might be Google News, and
perhaps it should end up at news.dailykos.com instead of the dKosopedia

There must be software out there somewhere that does this, collecting headlines (or allowing submissions for headlines), categorizing them, and formatting; it's somewhat RSS reader like, but not quite. I'll take a look around and see what I can find. (I have a somewhat uterior motive - hotlinking images like this is frowned upon, but i don't have unlimited bandwidth to serve a Drudge-like site with a fair number of images.)

But the idea is a very good one - a left-leaning news clearinghouse...

--bgod 09:49, 24 Jul 2004 (PDT) Thanks Centerfielder. I've been feeling a need for a drudge-like resource for our side, to counter the conservative talking points that get parroted by the mainstream media. Something more aggressive than say Common Dreams or Truthout or the other existing left-leaning news clearinghouses..

There's something compelling about the way that Drudge does what he does that seems to attract a lot of dKos folks. Part of it is probably us keeping tabs on the competition, but more than that I think his site gives a quick, central glance at breaking news and the day's headlines of interest to news junkies - and he is able to spin the news items in the way he words the headlines. I figured using a similar look and feel for this page would let people know what to expect, but I also assumed that it would evolve into something more unique over time. I also hoped that it could eventually find a spot outside of dKosopedia - as it doesn't really fit in with the concept of a political encyclopedia - but I'd like to see it keep close ties to the dKos community (news.dailykos.com? hmm..), to make it something of a community effort - it's really too big an effort for one person alone. The wiki tool is very handy for that type of collaboration.

I'm not too familiar with RSS, but a rolling headlines format seems less flexible and maybe less compelling from a layout perspective than what I was aiming for. Maybe not?

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