Purpose, don’t repurpose, your information

Steve Safran September 18th, 2006

Adrian Holvaty writes an excellent piece on how newspapers should be sharing more of their research online and not just continuing with the “gather lots of information and distill it” model. His advice also applies to TV websites. Your reporters gather tons of information that would help your audience understand the story. Post it all. “Repurposing” is just a term for using old stuff. Use the new stuff in a new way. Cory adds: Adrian’s key point is that sites should switch from a story-centric to an object model when organizing information. This will create new ways to display information at the user’s behest, as well as empower social news initiatives down the road. (Via notes from a teacher)