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Isn't that what something like a newspaper or weekly magazine is trying to do?

rm999 14y ago
Yes, I think so. I like the Economist's weekly updates: http://www.economist.com/node/21564620 http://www.economist.com/node/21564620 http://www.economist.com/node/21564618 http://www.economist.com/node/21564618 And the economist did cover this news more thoroughly: http://www.economist.com/node/21564192 http://www.economist.com/node/21564192
- Evbn 14y ago
  Article begins with > ON SEPTEMBER 26th Google, an internet-search firm, And then the article describes Maps, a major business component that is not Internet search at all. Also, nice aptonym on Dr De'ath studying coral reef death.
lifeisstillgood 14y ago
I'm not sure - mostly newspapers are context-less - the stories are not placed in a overall explicit model. You have to know the model the newspaper editors have in their head to know if the Royal Wedding on front page is really more important than the floods in $Country on page 9. I am asking / wanting an explicit model - for example the Treasury in UK govt runs very comprehensive economic modelling software - trying to gauge for example the impact of floods on productive capacity on semiconductors. Now if you could run such sims on a wiki like basis - that the oil consultancy in Houston could accept inputs and provide outputs and run a more sophisticated model than the base case then there would be a base model to refer to - to help gauge what is more important. And that decision would rest on what you called more important (lives, standards of living etc). And on which models/ plugins you choose - the left wing oil consultancy or the right wing oil consultancy Basically newspapers tell human interest stories, and the guiding models for that (editor taste and opinion) seems to have dimmed into A/B tested celeb output. I would like - well, perspective, context and then news

rm999 14y ago

Yes, I think so. I like the Economist's weekly updates: http://www.economist.com/node/21564620 http://www.economist.com/node/21564620 http://www.economist.com/node/21564618 http://www.economist.com/node/21564618 And the economist did cover this news more thoroughly: http://www.economist.com/node/21564192 http://www.economist.com/node/21564192

Evbn 14y ago
Article begins with > ON SEPTEMBER 26th Google, an internet-search firm, And then the article describes Maps, a major business component that is not Internet search at all. Also, nice aptonym on Dr De'ath studying coral reef death.

lifeisstillgood 14y ago

I'm not sure - mostly newspapers are context-less - the stories are not placed in a overall explicit model. You have to know the model the newspaper editors have in their head to know if the Royal Wedding on front page is really more important than the floods in $Country on page 9. I am asking / wanting an explicit model - for example the Treasury in UK govt runs very comprehensive economic modelling software - trying to gauge for example the impact of floods on productive capacity on semiconductors. Now if you could run such sims on a wiki like basis - that the oil consultancy in Houston could accept inputs and provide outputs and run a more sophisticated model than the base case then there would be a base model to refer to - to help gauge what is more important. And that decision would rest on what you called more important (lives, standards of living etc). And on which models/ plugins you choose - the left wing oil consultancy or the right wing oil consultancy Basically newspapers tell human interest stories, and the guiding models for that (editor taste and opinion) seems to have dimmed into A/B tested celeb output. I would like - well, perspective, context and then news