Ben Tesch - News at the Speed of Light - SIC2012
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NEWS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
@magnetbox @corybe
#SIC
NEWS IS GETTING FASTER AND SMALLER
Newspaper TV Web
Newspaper TV Web Mobile+social
Smaller and smaller content context
MORE NEWSMORE TYPES OF NEWSMORE SOURCES OF NEWS
The story is covered before the media gets there.
Cameras are just about everywhere.
The future: Better cameras + more cameras + more bandwidth
+
Everyone is covering themselves.
Social media amplifies and accelerates.
“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” - @clayshirky
Editors
+
Technology
+
Community
@breakingnews
BreakingNews.com
What’s happening right now,
straight from the source.
@breakingnews
BreakingNews.com
What’s happening right now,
straight from the source.
EVERYONE WANTS THE NEWS THEY GET TO BE TRUE
Political fact-checking
VERIFICATION
VERIFICATION
Political fact-checking
VERIFICATION
Crowd curation
VERIFICATION
Self-correction
VERIFICATION
Humans + shoe leather + coffee
+
VERIFICATION
Technology
• Geotagged?
• Instagram and Twitter account
history
• Compare against Streetview, live
feeds
• Reverse image search to avoid
copycat
• Cross-reference against other
images
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Social Graph
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Interests
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Location
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Context and thresholds
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Judgment
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT
Opinion
@breakingnews
BreakingNews.com
• Let people specify interests• Use the mobile device as a utility• Show different information in different contexts• Use people to do what people are good at
BreakingNews.app
BreakingNews.you
EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT