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If you've visited the iReport.com homepage more than once in the past few days, you've probably seen a lot of Marcus Harun . We love Marcus Harun. He's a 16-year-old iReport phenom from Hamden, Connecticut, who files detailed political analysis of debates and primary results, and even shoots video reports about the occasional Nor'easter.
His Situation Room-style video book report about the "Lord of the Flies" was at the top of our homepage for days, since it outscored all the other contenders in our "newsiest" calculation. That formula combines ratings, pageviews, comments and freshness to put the most newsworthy stories out front.
Trouble is, that book report, as much as we love it, is by now old news. So we tweaked the formula a bit to give some other stories a ride at the top. What do you think? Are the stories at the top of the newsiest list the most newsworthy ones on the site?
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I would like to suggest that, at some point, you categorize the news stories; hard news, fluff, satire, political cartoons... these shouldn't all be lumped together. Once you have your "newiest" algorithm fine-tuned, can you make that the default for the front page... rather than latest?
This is another great young kid! I would like to tell others that I'm into CNN and I host my own online radio show that talks about politics.
Asher Heimermann, WI
http://www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com