Dave Winer, the father of RSS, conceived an idea for TV news of the future.

I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they’re coping. I know this makes me an ogre, but after listening to On The Media yesterday, my cynicism is validated. And after watching 60 Minutes about life in Baghdad, the first report I’ve seen to actually go in to get the story, I was aware that people are dying in places outside Blacksburg (and truthfully, the dying is probably over in Blacksburg).

I had a flash, I want a checkbox that tells MSNBC that I don’t want any more Virginia Tech stories.

Dave even has a screen mockup of how he’d like to see the UI.

It’s a great idea. Essentially you’re filtering what you see in the news at any time.

We like to think that we’ve taken the next step in the idea by making the filtering just happen. News will work much better if it understands your interests and tastes intuitively, and provides filtered video or audio automatically. There might be some instances that this won’t work, but as long as you have access to everything and can “browse, surf, or search,” and you can make your own decisions of new filters.

What do people think of Dave’s idea? How do people see “news” working in Scouta?

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