The creation of my State of the Union “What they’re saying” page required trips to several different sites for examples. After finding a good starting point with the Baltimore Sun article shared in the Facebook group the next step was to find other good examples. Searching for a wide variety of topics was another important piece in starting the project.
Perhaps the most interesting page I stumbled upon was this annotated version of the address. The page linked nearly every line of the speech to a tweet that gave more insight. This served as a good model for my page even though the layout was completely different. Being able to read something and get the information, but this was a simple but great model of having the option to learn more with just one click. Another great example that was quite different but had the same premise was The Washington Post’s collection of headlines. The page simply posted a headline followed by a comment. This served as a nice model on how to curate the page. Finding content was not difficult considering the tools at my disposal. Twitter was more trouble to use than expected but one reason for that is a general lack of political news sources in my own feed. The search turned up a surprising amount of non-news users even after narrowing the search to top tweets only. I learned that you can scroll through 10 sources shockingly fast. These types of pages should scroll on for ages. Ideally a "what they're saying" page would have upwards of 20 sources. The links either need to cover a massive variety of topics and outlets or the reader needs to click through and read each one In order for someone to become really informed on a page like this with just 10 links. The State of the Union address divides people no matter what the president says or who the president is. It would be hard to find a better topic for which to create a page like this.
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