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What does that mean? Are you looking to serve news up in an unconventional way?
Yes. I want to use a news source that is built mainly around bullet points, short sweet facts. A news source that provides resources for it's users to do it's own research, but not overwhelm them. I can't find this. So I am considering building it.
What kind of coding (languages, systems, projects) have you done so far?
Can you write? Are you going to scrape other people's information? What kind of information are you interested in publishing?
I think I can write, but I certainly don't know if I can in the form of reporting. The kind of information I'm interested in publishing is non-biased facts. I doubt a news site could function purely on this, but if I could design one I would put a lot of emphasis on bullet points.
If news-dot-coms actually labeled and isolated the facts that they published, this wouldn't be a problem. It also wouldn't be a challenge.
Why not just use Wordpress with a few add-ons and a theme that looks like a news site?
Because I have ideas I feel could shake the news industry up, even if it's just for a small niche of people. I don't really want to be a "me too" site.
Your age is only as relevant as you choose to make it. What kind of coding (languages, systems, projects) have you done so far?
I have done PHP / MySQL, and learned Django before jumping ship to Ruby on Rails. I'm now exclusively Rails, but also have toyed with C# in the past.
As for projects, I have many ideas in my arsenal but as of now only one is being actively developed; however it isn't giving me the kind of passion I had when I came up with the idea about a year ago.
Hope this helps :)
http://knowledgeisfortheworld.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-i-sta... Hope this helps :)
Your age is only as relevant as you choose to make it. What kind of coding (languages, systems, projects) have you done so far?
I like the sound of that. I have done PHP / MySQL, and learned Django before jumping ship to Ruby on Rails. I'm now exclusively Rails, but also have toyed with C# in the past. As for projects, I have many ideas in my arsenal but as of now only one is being actively developed; however it isn't giving me the kind of passion I had when I came up with the idea about a year ago.
I'd say build as much of what you've got in mind as you can. Encourage people to look at it even when it's very rough -- don't disappear for months making something slick/complete. Adjust. Continue.
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