Idea of the Day: Coma Catch-Up

Someone should start a site called ComaCatchUp.com. You could enter how long you’ve been in a coma (e.g., “6 years”) and it would give you all you needed to know to catch up on the world.

You’d start by capturing the major news of each week, then creating monthly stories, then editing them to be relevant in the future. For example, the news that Kerry is leading in the polls might be news this week, but a few years from now no one will care who was leading when. So you’d have to edit for the future, so to speak.

You’d also want to include things like acronyms, slang, prices, and so on.

I don’t know if it would be best to create a running narrative that covers everything, or divide it up into sections — politics, entertainment, etc. But still — Coma Catchup. Think about it.