friday, december 05, 2003
ten elements of interesting stuff
Ten Elements of News
- Immediacy or timeliness
- Proximity or nearness
- Consequence or impact
- Prominence
- Drama
- Oddity or unusualness
- Conflict
- Sex
- Emotions and instincts
- Progress
from page 15 of Scholastic Journalism, by Rolnicki, Tate, & Taylor (aka my journalism textbook).
we were reading this in class and i was staring at this list, thinking…”hmm, these are actually the elements of a good linklog link”.
then, i realized any interesting thing has these qualities…the order of importance varies by format. for linklogs:
- oddity or unusualness
- consequence or impact
- progress
- sex
- immediacy or timeliness
- proximity or nearness
- emotions and instincts
- drama
- conflict
- prominence
but i’m sure people’s criteria for interesting linklogs varies more widely than criteria for good news.
it would be interesting to keep a parallel delicious with these categories.
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