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In the battle against he said / she said journalism, there's an easy way to find out which experts, sources, and pundits are | In the battle against he said / she said journalism, there's an easy way to find out which experts, sources, and pundits are wrong most often. Let's keep score. | ||
NewsCapsule aggregates predictions made by '''sources''', '''pundits''', and '''public officials''', organizes them in terms of news trend/topic, and displays them chronologically. Users are able to weigh in themselves, and after a set period of time are reminded to come back to see what actually ended up happening. The accuracy of a prediction is determined by the crowd and forever linked to the person who made it. | NewsCapsule aggregates predictions made by '''sources''', '''pundits''', and '''public officials''', organizes them in terms of news trend/topic, and displays them chronologically. Users are able to weigh in themselves, and after a set period of time are reminded to come back to see what actually ended up happening. The accuracy of a prediction is determined by the crowd and forever linked to the person who made it. | ||
Revision as of 20:58, 18 June 2009
The Knight Foundation will give $6,000 in total prize money to a small competition held at the Future of News and Civic Media conference for conference attendees.
- All projects need to be collaborative, team-based work.
- Teams should formed of people who were not collaborating before. It would be great if team members met at the conference but this is not necessary!
- Proposals should be either brand new ideas or projects to strengthen or coordinate work between attendees' existing projects.
On Friday morning, project proposals will each give short talks pitching their projects or collaboration. Subsequently, the group will vote on the project ideas using Selectricity, a Center for Future Civic Media sponsored voting technology that uses preferential decision-making to help small groups and organizations run elections. Prizes will given to the top three projects in the values of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place projects respectively.
To submit a new project proposal, copy the template, edit this page, paste the template to the bottom of the page, and then and edit the template to include information about your project:
=== Title === Description Team Members: Names of Team Members
Proposals
TweetBill
TweetBill sends you notification via Twitter when a bill reaches the stage in the US Congress where it's useful for you to call your Congresscritter! Sign up, tell us where you live, and you will get a tweet when your representative is slated to vote on a bill, along with the rep's phone number.
Team Members: Pete Karl, Ryan Mark, Aron Pilhofer, Lisa Williams, Persephone Miel, Nick Allen
NewsCapsule/Quantum News
In the battle against he said / she said journalism, there's an easy way to find out which experts, sources, and pundits are wrong most often. Let's keep score.
NewsCapsule aggregates predictions made by sources, pundits, and public officials, organizes them in terms of news trend/topic, and displays them chronologically. Users are able to weigh in themselves, and after a set period of time are reminded to come back to see what actually ended up happening. The accuracy of a prediction is determined by the crowd and forever linked to the person who made it.
Team Members: David Cohn, Dan Schultz, Ryan Sholin