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Bullet Point News - Hierarchical articles

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  • Created: Mar 25, 2007, 7:30 pm
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The Idea

A community-driven website where the users "compress" the content of individual news articles into hierarchical sets of bullet points. Got an iPod? Imagine an individual news article structured like iPod data - click on one item, and get moved to a "sub section", repeat.

Can you give me an example?

Sure, a "Pet Food Recall" article. Bullet News would compress the article into five bullet points:

+ Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans of wet food last week
+ Now asking for all brands to be removed
+ 16 cats & dogs have died
+ Contained rat poison 'aminopterin'
+ Menu Foods said it will pay for resulting pet expenses

Clicking on the first point titled "Menu Foods recalled 60 million..." would change the list to other points in the article relating to that point:

+ Original recall was announced on March 16th
+ Applied to wet food made in Kansas and New Jersey
+ Between Dec 3 & March 6.

Clicking on any of these points would lead to another set of Points until there are none l

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Rupak
Rupak Posted: March 26, 2007, 4:34 am

I don't agree that bullet point news would work. In the 21st century people don't have time, sometimes 24 hours is not enough for many and they do not want to put in lots of effort to do things. News nowadays certainly have to be short but it needs to have all the detail. Bullet sounds great but I do not agree with the idea of it leading to another set of bullets. Why not give the whole news in bullets on the same page but it should not lead to another set of bullets.

Rizal
Rizal Posted: May 21, 2007, 6:28 pm

i agree

 

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