I remembered what I missed in my last post on Instant News: Instant Outliner.  "Dave"'s Instant Outline idea is ideal for many-to-many persistent instant messaging needed for Instant News.  Some new features needs to be added (i.e. mouse click notifications) for voting-with-your-click approach to polling and ranking.

At this point, I am thinking about what topic expert specific features are needed.  For example, there is the problem of noise for lurkers who just wants the news details and insightful discussion on the news.  Experts could filter the noise by starting their own subchat with approved co-experts and forward selected popular statements using mouse clicks.

Instant Newsie

I have a name fetish because packaging is important and names are packaging for ideas.  Instant Newsie seems like a good name for people who participate in Instant News events…