404. Tech. General News/Mag Websites. UX user engagement. Responsive Web & App & UI. Glopro bLog. Experiments with a robot-generated newspaper with The Long Good Read Nieman On the surface, The Long Good Read has the appeal of being a kind of analog Instapaper for all things Guardian. But the interesting thing is how paper is produced: robots. Okay, algorithms if you want to be technical — algorithms and programs that both select the paper’s stories and lay them out on the page. 1) Newspaper Editors and Writers. The Guardian is of course made of people, and those people together give the paper its voice, by deciding which articles to commission, which writers to hire and what topics, news and subjects they want them to write about. 2) Readers Now its not going to read or watch itself, so here come the readers.
Editors are our first filter, the readers are our second. 3) Robots They also have an API which exposes things like Most Viewed articles, word counts, sections and such like. thelonggoodread.com. Glopro pinterest. FG.com_2014 on Pinterest. News_IC on Pinterest. Pinterest Airline Business.
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