Exploring News by Matthew Hurst.
From the post:
In experimenting with news aggregation and mining on the d8taplex site, I’ve come up with the following questions:
Why are some news articles picked up and others not? News sources such as Reuters create articles that are either directly consumed or which are picked up by other publications and passed along. Who are these people writing these articles? What are their interests, areas of expertise and personalities? What is the role of the editor and how do they influence the selection and form of the content produced by the news machine? The next round of experimentation with news aggregation has resulted in the current new site. It has the following features.
Drop by and give Matthew a hand.
Story selection has many factors. Which ones do you think are important?