Subject: Value-Added Info. (was: Re: Bad design vs text thread) From: justink@howpubs.com (Justin Kerr) Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 09:55:23 -0500

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Bernard Hughes wrote:

>> Reporters and editors should be
>>familiar enough with the concept of a newspaper package to quickly
>>adapt to cyberspace hypertexts.  But they'll certainly have to get
>>used to the concept of a limitless news hole.
>>
> I hope not. The Web is already a limitless newshole, judging my the time I
>can spend wandering around on it. I thought I was paying editors to set
>some boundaries and priorities.  

That's exactly what they'll have to do - figure out how to take advantage
of a limitless news hole without frittering away their time on 
information that will be of marginal benefit to users.  We want to
allow our newsroom to submit value-added information to our online
service's staff, get that value-added info. scanned in and then link
it to an online news story.

The question is: What are the best types of value-added information?
Longer versions of stories, official public documents and background
information will undoubtedly become standard fodder for the
value-added slot.  But what about additional photos and graphics, and
raw press releases and other highly subjective information?

As we're starting up this feature, I imagine that we'll want to focus
on value-added information linked to the biggest local news stories.  
I'd like to hear from folks who have already implemented a service
like this (anyone from Chicago Online out there?) - specifically,
how much personnel effort it takes to include value-added information.

Reply to online-news or drop me a line via e-mail.

Thanks in advance,

- Justin Kerr
Editor, CaluNET Online
kerr@howpubs.com
(219) 933-4052



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