First look: Spundge is software to help journalists to manage real-time data streams by Andrew Phelps.
From the post:
“Spundge is a platform that’s built to take a journalist from information discovery and tracking all the way to publishing, regardless of whatever internal systems they have to contend with,” he told me.
A user creates notebooks to organize material (a scheme familiar to Evernote users). Inside a notebook, a user can add streams from multiple sources and activate filters to refine by keyword, time (past few minutes, last week), location, and language.
Spundge extracts links from those sources and displays headlines and summaries in a blog-style river. A user can choose to save individual items to the notebook or hide them from view, and Spundge’s algorithms begin to learn what kind of content to show more or less of. A user can also save clippings from around the web with a bookmarklet (another Evernote-like feature). If a notebook is public, the stream can be embedded in webpages, à la Storify. (Here’s an example of a notebook tracking the ONA 2012 conference.)
Looks interesting but I wonder about the monochrome view it presents the user?
That is some particular user makes their settings and until and unless they change those settings, the limits of the content they are shown is measured by that user.
As opposed to say a human curated source like the New York Times. (Give me human editors and the New York Times)
Or is the problem a lack of human curated data feeds?