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It might be nice to read news articles this way. Start with the headline and expand the parts that interest you the most. I can imagine it being difficult to wr

by edsrzf 15y ago

It might be nice to read news articles this way. Start with the headline and expand the parts that interest you the most. I can imagine it being difficult to write that way, though.

basseq 15y ago
I discovered Joe Davis and TT a couple years (even going so far as to make my own editing tool which, I like to think, influenced Joe's own implementation). I was thinking about the news article ideas the other day, actually. (E.g., a 24in60.com snippet that expends to a full article.) I think it would be really cool, but it takes a lot of work to make something seamlessly go from being a snippet of information to a full-fledged investigatory article. You'd basically have to write a series of increasingly more detailed articles using the same story flow. This might be something text analytics and computer-generated content could be able to do; if not today, then someday.
- csytan 15y ago
  Why not go the opposite way and write increasingly shorter snippets from a full article?
  - jackolas 15y ago
    This is whats shocked me about the authoring tool.
bkudria 15y ago
Or maybe just write the article, and present the most-important bits first, starting with the headline. Then, the first paragraph or so would cover the important points, and as you kept reading, it'd get less and less important.
- whimsy 15y ago
  That's genius. I wish there was an organization in which they wrote most of their articles this way. Perhaps they could even send these articles to other organizations for some kind of reprinting fee.
- qntm 15y ago
  That's exactly how all news stories are written. Unless you were making a joke.
  - whimsy 15y ago
    Yes, that's the point. Sadly, it's pretty trivial to disprove this by counterexample.
jeffool 15y ago
I agree, and did a little example of such: http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT I did a better go at it, but then realized I'd yet to sign up... I didn't quite have the mettle to do as good a job on the second attempt. But I certainly think it'd be interesting to have this on a site.

by edsrzf 15y ago

It might be nice to read news articles this way. Start with the headline and expand the parts that interest you the most. I can imagine it being difficult to write that way, though.

basseq 15y ago

I discovered Joe Davis and TT a couple years (even going so far as to make my own editing tool which, I like to think, influenced Joe's own implementation). I was thinking about the news article ideas the other day, actually. (E.g., a 24in60.com snippet that expends to a full article.) I think it would be really cool, but it takes a lot of work to make something seamlessly go from being a snippet of information to a full-fledged investigatory article. You'd basically have to write a series of increasingly more detailed articles using the same story flow. This might be something text analytics and computer-generated content could be able to do; if not today, then someday.

csytan 15y ago
Why not go the opposite way and write increasingly shorter snippets from a full article?
- jackolas 15y ago
  This is whats shocked me about the authoring tool.

bkudria 15y ago

Or maybe just write the article, and present the most-important bits first, starting with the headline. Then, the first paragraph or so would cover the important points, and as you kept reading, it'd get less and less important.

whimsy 15y ago
That's genius. I wish there was an organization in which they wrote most of their articles this way. Perhaps they could even send these articles to other organizations for some kind of reprinting fee.
qntm 15y ago
That's exactly how all news stories are written. Unless you were making a joke.
- whimsy 15y ago
  Yes, that's the point. Sadly, it's pretty trivial to disprove this by counterexample.

jeffool 15y ago

I agree, and did a little example of such: http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT I did a better go at it, but then realized I'd yet to sign up... I didn't quite have the mettle to do as good a job on the second attempt. But I certainly think it'd be interesting to have this on a site.