Sweet! A news home page that indexes more types of information than just the “top stories”
Daylife.com is a new news aggregator … big whoop, right? Well, there’s something worth looking at here, and it’s how they organize their information. Instead of a bunch of lists of stories on their top stories index, they publish:
- A quote from some newsmaker,
- A photo-thumbnail index of the top people in the news,
- A photo-thumbnail index of the top organizations in the news,
- A photo-thumbnail index of the top places in the news,
- And a top-story list (with a little more context to the information than most top-story lists provide).
For reference, DayLife defines “top” as “The stories appearing most often in the world’s top news publications.”
I’m working at my job to get more types of content than “stories” indexed and dynamically displayed on our site. The further newspaper-dot-coms move from the article as the main delivery mode of information, the more exciting the online product gets.