The second GonzoCamp is under way at the Seattle P-I building. There are 5 teams working to develop prototypes or fully baked ideas to present by the end of the day.
Predictably, mobile and paywalls earned some focus, as 2 of the 5 teams are taking specific ideas related to those topics.
But there were many other ideas pitched during the morning session, too. In fact, there were 12 different categories represented in the 20-some ideas pitched.
The three other ideas currently under development are a “Yelp for journalists” (proposed by Monica Guzman) that was combined with 3 other ideas relating to credibility and reputation. Imagine clicking on a byline from a news story or blog and being taken to a Yelp style page with reviews, ratings and comments about that author.
Another team is working on “know your crowd,” (proposed by Robin Barre) which would produce better stats around user experience (where do they get their news?), user needs (what do they need to know?) and user desire (what gets users excited?).
The other non-mobile/paywall idea to make the cut is “pitch map” by Daniel Bachhuber. Imagine a platform where anyone can suggest a story that needs to be covered to a map where any journalist could “take the assignment.”
That’s how the ideas were pitched. We’ll see what they look like at the end of the day during the presentations.
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