ijnews
December 07, 2005 21:40 Filed in:
Technology 3.0
Back in 1999 I had a new idea for a
news site. The concept was that rather than generate news, the site
would:
1. Summarize top headlines, and
2. Provide an index to multiple news sites with content related to current headlines.
I called the site IJNews.com, and introduced it in 1999. Here is a link to a saved archive of the site (provided by archive.org). You will note that the site's layout was crude by today's standards (including an automatically updated current date display where the actual 1999 date should appear). Isn't it wonderful that our best and worst is preserved equally by this Library of Congress funded project!!!
The hackworthy contribution of this site was the layout of the layout of the news site. There were two new things I did here:
1. I wrote my own headlines. This enabled me to spotlight stories without creating Intellectual Property issues.
2. Below each headline I provided clearly identified links to various news providers with related stories.
Most web news fans will notice the similarities between my format and the format re-invented a few years later by the Google people. Since we all know Google is the best, I deem anything like it (in even the smallest way) hackworthy.
1. Summarize top headlines, and
2. Provide an index to multiple news sites with content related to current headlines.
I called the site IJNews.com, and introduced it in 1999. Here is a link to a saved archive of the site (provided by archive.org). You will note that the site's layout was crude by today's standards (including an automatically updated current date display where the actual 1999 date should appear). Isn't it wonderful that our best and worst is preserved equally by this Library of Congress funded project!!!
The hackworthy contribution of this site was the layout of the layout of the news site. There were two new things I did here:
1. I wrote my own headlines. This enabled me to spotlight stories without creating Intellectual Property issues.
2. Below each headline I provided clearly identified links to various news providers with related stories.
Most web news fans will notice the similarities between my format and the format re-invented a few years later by the Google people. Since we all know Google is the best, I deem anything like it (in even the smallest way) hackworthy.
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