Your Help is Needed - Top Stories of the Year

[Sebastian Pinto]

Good afternoon Infobitt editors!

Lately, Larry and I have been working to gather  news stories in order to create a special feature on Infobitt in time for New Years, a Top 10 list of the most important and impactful stories of 2014. Each selected story will have its own rankable bitt in a "Top Stories of the Year" category, and the facts within each will chronologically present the story as it happened throughout the year. This will be a great opportunity to showcase the creative applications and capabilities of the Infobitt platform and we need your help in order to make it happen. 

2014 has been a particularly eventful year, so naturally, it will be a difficult task to find and the top 10 stories to include in the feature. Here's how you can help:

1.) If you know of any stories that are not in the list below, nominate them by replying to this notice. We hope to have at least 25 before selecting the top 10 stories. 

2.) Provide us with your opinion on which stories should make the Top 10 cut.

Note, that we intend to create broad bitts for developing stories (such as The War in East Ukraine) and related stories (such as the Malaysian airline accidents) in order to economize space and include as many stories as possible. Anyway, here's the list we have so far:

Top Stories of the Year

• 1. The War in East Ukraine
• 2. The West Africa Ebola Epidemic
• 3. The Rise of ISIL ( And the Subsequent Merging of The Syrian Civil War and The Iraqi Insurgency)
• 4. The Israeli–Palestinian Summer Conflict
• 5. Terrorism in Africa: Boko Haram
  • April: 276 girls held hostage in Nigeria
  • May: Boko Haram kill 300 people in a night attack on Gamboru Ngala
  • May: Terrorists in Nigeria detonate bombs and kill 100 people
  • And more.
• 6. Airline Accidents: Malaysia Airlines 270, Malaysia Airlines 17, Air Asia Flight Q8501
• 7. Philae Lands on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
• 8. Protests in Ferguson, tensions between the public and the police, Deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner
• 9. U.S. President Barack Obama Announces the Resumption of Normal Relations Between the U.S. and Cuba
• 10. The FIFA World Cup Takes Place in Brazil in June (Perhaps the 10th spot should be reserved for an "Obituary" section, in order to document the deaths of prominent people throughout the year, many of which made big news including: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, Alexander Grothendieck, Oscar de la Renta, Chespirito, Joe Cocker, Joan Rivers, Paco de Lucia, Tadeusz Różewicz, Maya Angelou, Casey Kasem, Mickey Rooney, & Shirley Temple)
• 11. The Winter Olympics Take Place in Sochi, Russia, in February
• 12. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO2 (Nov. 2)
• 13. April: Korean ferry capsizes, killing 290 people, mostly high-school students
• 14. July: Airplane crashes in Mali, killing 116 people
• 15.. Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are found guilty of crimes against humanity and are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• 16. King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, who ascends the Spanish throne as King Felipe VI.

I'm eager to hear your nominations and opinions. Have a fantastic New Year, and here's to 2015!

Sebastian Pinto

[Larry Sanger]

Good selection, Sebastian. I'll be curious to see if anyone can think of any other top stories of the year…

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[Sebastian Pinto]

Thanks everyone for the nominations and opinions so far! Keep sending them in. I will be posting an updated list later today, at which time we will make the decision of which stories will make the Top 10 list that will be going live on Infobitt.