For a while now, I've been holding on to a few ideas for digital media in the hope of implementing them some day. But there's only so much that one person can do, and I'm sold on the idea of sharing ideas. None of these ideas, in my opinion, is spectacular, and all of them might already have been implemented in some shape or form. More importantly, there isn't a business model in place for some of them, but I do believe that these will add value to media organizations and perhaps civil society, or be an alternate to existing media models. If you implement any of them, do let me know, and I'll gladly lend my support to the cause. We have an online media ecosystem to build - one that isn't a copy-paste of print, but more digital, and collaborative in nature. Here goes: Six Degrees Search How about a website that identifies relationships between public individuals on the basis of media reports, and public information. Often, for journalists and bloggers, it's difficult to connect the dots, and there are angles to stories that may not be very obvious. For example, how would you be able to tell if a politician allocated an apartment in a building complex to his sons classmates father? For that the connection would be: Politician -> Son -> School -> Classmate -> Father. Or, lets take an example of sports and betting: Manoj Badale is listed here as a director on the board of…
