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Articles like this remind me of a website idea I had: web-wide mostly human curated collections of articles on something, tracking the progress of something ove
by JeffJenkins 16y ago
Articles like this remind me of a website idea I had: web-wide mostly human curated collections of articles on something, tracking the progress of something over time and giving a summary. I feel like it's too easy to see something interesting that you'd like to follow but then not have any reasonable way to do so. You can do things like Google Alerts, but you need to choose the right keywords and would probably get a lot of false-positives.
(My example is always an article I read about a decade ago about mouth bacteria which caused no or minimal cavities but could also overpower the normal bacteria, which if introduced would make it so you virtually never needed to go to the dentist)
- DrSprout 16y agoSo sort of a logical view of Wikipedia with RSS?
- tocomment 16y agoI've always wanted this product too. That may actually be workable, simple solution. If you see an interesting technology that you want to track, just subscribe to its wikipedia article's RSS.
- tocomment 16y agoI'd like to take this one step further and actually hold people who make big claims accountable. So part of the proposed website could have members actually contact the scientists (or journalists) every 5 years and find out if they're meeting they're predictions and if not, why not.
- ihodes 16y agoThat's what Long Now's http://www.longbets.org/ http://www.longbets.org/ is for :)
- neonak 16y agoWhat you're describing looks like Google Living Stories. http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ The code is open-source and there is even an Wordpress plugin. BTW: I always wanted a website or newspaper that covered stories that made the headlines to investigate it years later, to see how these people are doing now or how events shaped their lives. Would be interesting to read.