MORNING RUN
8:00 AM MT
Five useful developments to start the day. Approval window opens after verification.
THE SIGNAL ROOM
HOW TEN CANDIDATES BECOME A FEW GOOD STORIES.
Machine scouts. Human judgment. Visible evidence. No automatic publishing.
EVENING RUN
6:00 PM MT
Five late releases, deeper reads, and items that changed during the day.
PUBLISH RULE
HUMAN FIRST
No candidate becomes an article until the angle and evidence packet are approved.
EDITORIAL PIPELINE
EIGHT GATES, ONE RECEIPT
SCOUT
Search trusted primary sources, release notes, research, tool directories, and selected public feeds.
VERIFY
Confirm the claim, event date, source quality, availability, and whether the item is actually new.
SCORE
Rate usefulness, novelty, human impact, evidence strength, and fit for curious builders.
SHORTLIST
Place the five best candidates into the morning or evening approval deck.
APPROVE
A person chooses the angle, asks for a change, holds the item, or rejects it.
MAKE
Write the explainer, define terms, create the cartoon hero, and draw the patent-style figure.
CHECK
Review every claim, link, permission boundary, image, tag, and forbidden punctuation mark.
PUBLISH
Store the article, attach its terms and tags, publish it, and preserve a revision receipt.
CANDIDATE SCORE
WHAT EARNS A PLACE
USEFULNESS30
HUMAN IMPACT25
NOVELTY20
EVIDENCE15
FIT10
ARTICLE TEMPLATE
THE READER'S PATH
- The one-sentence signal
- What actually happened
- The plain-language translation
- Why it matters now
- Useful applications
- Who should care
- What could go wrong
- Glossary cards
- Sources and verification note
VISUAL DIRECTION
CARTOON ABOVE. BLUEPRINT BELOW.
Each hero uses one original field-report cartoon with strong black linework and a simple visual joke. Each explainer figure uses numbered patent-style views, clear arrows, a cream paper ground, and only the labels needed to teach the idea.
NO STOCK ARTNO FAKE UINO DECORATIVE DIAGRAMS