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jitwaru2 edited this page Jan 14, 2017
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TODO: answer the questions to demonstrate why this isn't a waste of time and resources:
- What are we making?
- What problem are we tackling?
- Why is this problem serious/worth solving?
- How will our project address the problem?
- Why is our project different/worth starting anew (as opposed to using preexisting platforms)?
The purpose of news is supposed to be to provide a wholistic and concise view into the state of the world, and it fails to do that. People do not have a fast, easy, or reliable way to get concise news, or gain insights from that news.
The current model for news is that the Publishers bombard you with an overwhelming amount of obtuse, verbose, and disjointed information on a daily basis, and you are left to:
- try to keep up with all of it (watch all the morning news, read all the articles from all the publishers)
- parse through all the cruft for main ideas
- piece together disjointed pieces of information to get big picture information/insight (maybe you read 5 news articles on healthcare in the past 3 months -- it's up to you to retain that info and connect it in your head to draw big picture conclusions)
If you really want to have a wholistic view into what the government is doing on any topic, then you have to do all that. The alternatives are:
- having lots of conversation with lots of people to achieve information diffusion
- googling around aimlessly and hoping that you find reliable data that you can piece together
- hope that someone already did the summary work for you on their blog
This results in the following:
- people with swiss cheese gaps in what they know about their government, resulting in biased or incorrect wholistic views
- people who rely solely on facebook/twitter feeds to get what their friends thing are important
- people who are disengaged entirely from keeping up with any kind of news because there's just too much of it