I think the problem is that there is no definitive source of press
releases, though there were suggestions. Maybe that's the most useful
area to do work in?
If churnalism is producing a list of articles which are known to be
based on press releases, it should be possible to do some sort of
bayesian-type analysis to pick up on article features, like those
phrases suggested, that indicate a press release. It might require a bit
more computation, though.
You could also use it to pick up on articles relating to things like
votes in parliament, which can then be linked to.
I emailed the churnalism team with browser extension thoughts, but
basically I imagine (and put a bit of work into one before I heard about
churnalism.com) a fairly minimalist extension which injects a notice
into newspaper articles the backend site (churnalism.com) reports as
likely being press releases, and provides options to report an article
as suspect, to supplement the backend algorithmics. Something that just
sits there being unused most of the time, but can become more active as
more information is created/crowd sourced.
-t
On 28/02/2011 17:21, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2011 16:21:41 Frankie Roberto wrote:
How about:
"research published today" / "according to research" / "according to a new
report"
Love the idea of Churnalism btw.
So do I, but does anyone else think it would be more useful to compare newspaper
articles with hashes of press releases than the other way around? That way you
could have a browser extension that automatically checked news stories you
read...
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