s the hot topic discussed on Quickish today. What is Quickish? Quickish “publishes real-time news recommendations to help you keep up quickly with the big things that are happening.” It is a site that publishes editor-vetted news recommendations. Everything from breaking news to expert reactions are reviewed by Quickish editors and published to specific categories.Quickish was founded by Dan Shanoff earlier this year. Shanoff is a former ESPN writer who authored the column the “Daily Quickie” from 2003-2006. He launched Quickish in January of 2011 with his first topic being sports. Quickish plans to expand to other categories later this year. The source of news comes from many different media outlets; everything from TV/radio to the internet to ‘tips’ that people share via Twitter (@quickish) or email (tips@quickish).
The concept is a site with vetted news/reactions in almost real-time. This site reminds me of a really organized Twitter. Instead of seeing thoughts/reactions by person or by timestamp, they are all related to a specific category/topic. This site represents a marriage of technology and sports in a unique way. Although ‘sports’ was likely the first category chosen because of Shanoff’s background, it actually is the perfect genre for this type of media platform. Sports tend to bring out many varying perspectives and opinions (so there is always something new), but are relatively easy to organize. What better topic to kick off a site that mashes news and opinions in a structured manner? REF. quickish.com, techcrunch.com, wikipedia.org
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