Comments on: Bob Cauthorn returns with CityTools http://www.ojr.org/070919cauthorn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=070919cauthorn Focusing on the future of digital journalism Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matt Thompson http://www.ojr.org/070919cauthorn/#comment-944 Matt Thompson Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:56:46 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1363#comment-944 CityTools sounds like it will be good to watch, although I’m having a lot of trouble parsing the interface. I’ve been mulling over a lot of the same ideas as Bob Cauthorn has, and here at the Strib, we’ve implemented one — his description of the way “lists” work on CityTools matches almost exactly their functionality on vita.mn. Users submit list topics, any user can submit a top-ten list of responses to that topic, and we aggregate the most common responses.

The feature has been so popular that in July, we took the output from about 80 list topics, comprising over 3,000 individual top ten lists by users, and published them in a special blow-out issue of the website’s print counterpart. After a year, the number of list topics on the site approaches 800. One feature CityTools’ implementation of lists boasts that ours doesn’t (yet) is annotation of individual list items, which really is a lovely enhancement.

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