how to adapt the practice and business of journalism to the Web

Monthly Archives: April 2008

Creating awareness of online communities by automatically connecting people performing similar activities

Xoost.com connects you with people searching for the same thing you are (via eHub).
It’s not necessarily creating communities, but creating the awareness of the possibility of a community.
The same principle can be applied to almost any activity. For example, if you have a database of users on your news site, each story can list who [...]

The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them

I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you.

Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections
Being in the know / personal topic guidance
Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices
Forming opinions / critiquing service
Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]