Aggregated Live Blog of Global Events

Toyed around with this for a while, but some new tech makes some of it easier.

When there’s a major domestic or global event playing out, I find myself flitting between multiple live blogs, tweets and Reddit in order to get up to date information. The live blogs of individual publishers, understandably, don’t update terribly frequently (aside from sports).

So I was debating building a system that aggregated multiple live blogs, relevant/credible twitter commentators etc. and then creating a much faster/frequent feed for a live event.

Anyone think it has legs? Am I the only live new dopamine addict? Anyone want to help?

EDIT: should have clarified, isn’t pure aggregation, the aim would be to summarise/write a one liner for each source quoted. So not just a feed of feeds, but value on top.

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sn0w_crash 3y ago ↗

I think an aggregated feed of live global events is interesting so long as it is 100% unbiased and void of any additional commentary.

I would exclude Twitter for that reason. Just say what’s happening, don’t add “context”

shisisms 3y ago ↗

Yep, that’s sensible, if not easy. What about rumours? Is there value in adding news that the major publishers can’t, given the diligence they must apply, but here could be brought in, albeit with a clear UI that makes it clear it’s unverified.

ev1 3y ago ↗

Are you looking for something like this ?

https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap

https://rsoe-edis.org/eventList

shisisms 3y ago ↗

Nope, that’s impressive and not dissimilar to the EMM: https://emm.newsbrief.eu/

I’m thinking more extrapolation of news eg https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63327087 so not focussed on multiple events, but rather singular events, with more frequent updates.

So starting point is identify key trending global news event eg major terrorist attack, election, major domestic incident, maybe even pop cultural. And then rather than relying on disparate news sources to update, bring them all into one place.