(TinyURL.Com/RevTre = "reverse tree")
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The basic idea is the inverse of a "phone tree". Instead of one person generating content and relaying it through an ever-expanding tree of volunteers, lots of volunteers collect information and filter only the very best up to the next level, so the one person at the top gets the best of the best of contributions and doesn't have to waste time dealing with the majority of fan mail etc.
- Errata for Web pages (URL and context of erratum) so that WebMaster needs to look only at verified errata reports.
- Contact with famous/busy person, such as popular actress or political candidate, or CEO or ombudsman of major corporation, or person who
live-tweeted major news event
- Witnesses to news events, such as shooting in school (large), thereby in effect creating a "newswire service" that consolidates best of the reports
- Filtering first-contact e-mail to people who hate spam, such as myself (large), or filtering
('moderating') public comments
to a 'blog' to keep out profanities and spam
- Filtering a "group feed" into something like Twitter, where only the best gets posted to Twitter, spam and worthless chatter drop out early.
- Collecting reports of spammers on newsgroups or Twitter and filtering these reports to produce list of worst spammers that we'd most like to get rid of, a better-organized group effort similar to what FrankleeMiDeer is trying to do all alone.
- Filtering the many tweets of the people you are following or would like to follow on Twitter, so that you spend your time reading only the most interesting tweets.
- Filtering suggestions about what news stories are really important but not yet appreciated by most people, which therefore should be given greater attention by investigative reporters and news editors and the general public. For example, it shouldn't have taken 10 years for reports of birth defects resulting from thalidomide taken by the mothers to get recogized by the media.
The trick to get people to work hard at pleasing the end-recipient
/ target (person or newsfeed etc.)
by their efforts
filtering stuff for that end-recipient to see, is to use a
truth-futures market
whereby people put a "price" on each item being filtered,
that "price" being the probability that the end-recipient will like to read
the item. The market "price" for an item, rather than any one
individual's opinion, is used for placing the highest-value items
in the target's BestInBox. The funds that can be earned for good estimates,
or can be lost for bad estimates, are the incentive for good
filtering on behalf of the target (person or newsfeed etc.).
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These external links are to regular Web pages that are designed for full-screen Web browsers, not appropriate for viewing on cellphones:
tinyurl.com/f24sho
indirects to
Germany school shooting: thanks to Twitter, France 24 gets live account after 52 mins | The Observers
First detailed draft of reverse tree with myself as the target.
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