As part of my attempt to better understand the worlds of marketing, journalism and media I have set out to create as many new ideas as I consume, sort of like giving back to the community that has given me so much. One of the focuses of study that touches on all three areas is advanced content aggregation. Specifically, new models for collecting and organizing information so that it can be more easily accessed and dissemenated by users. What I have prepared here are a few examples of the kind of hypothesizing that I have been doing. It is important to note that these are simply preliminary ideas and do not rely on fact, more fiction, for their validity. Here we go.
- Multi-Layered – The idea here is that we will be able to access content based on the relationships that individual pieces of media have to the larger context they are found to have to other pieces of content. Essentially, the user would be greater with an opportunity to view the relationships that different websites had to categories of content and then to pieces of content individually. The construction of the actual interface between the user and the tool/application would depend entirely on the pieces that are put together. Despite, the innate variance in how content is displayed, the goal would be the same for every user: have the opportunity to see interrelationships between content in a way that allowed for ease of use and application.
- Variable Manipulation - With every source of information, and each piece itself, come certain variables that distinguish it (them) from others. Typically these variables are left untouched, but imagine if the variables were not only considered but were manipulated to provide even more context for the user/searcher/viewer. These variables would enable a greater allowance of freedom to discern the relevance of either a source or a piece of information to the end user.
These are a couple of ideas and more are on the way!
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