RICK SANCHEZ

link > Super-tweeter Andy Carvin might make the rest of us look like we're not trying hard enough, but the problem is, he doesn't scale like an app might. How do we make this man more efficient than he already is? »

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NPR’s thinking of inventing apps specifically for Andy Carvin: The problem that the popular Twitter curator, who gets upwards of 2,000 @replies a day at times, needs to solve is one of signal-to-noise. NPR may give him a tool that would help him score sources (similar to Klout) based on their usefulness in a given news story, as well as something to trace memes from quickly developing stories to their original sources, as a way to separate truth from fiction. He discussed out these ideas in a MIT/Knight Civic Media Conference conference session. Pretty cool.