What can make MappyNews attractive

Yes, the website is not totally ready to be actively looking for users. But to be sure I'm heading towards the good direction, I have to think about what I'm trying to do.
Building the website is an interesting process and I wanna gather here my vision of what can make the attraction of the soon-to-be website.

- A new way to get/visualize news.
Mapping the news is something obviously very interseting. It's been done before but I've never found a reliable/stable website in the long term. More reflexion on this later.
the attraction of this feature is anyway not contestable.

- An alert tool (the breaking news part of the website)
I don't think it's the main purpose of the website. I'm just going to use some tools that garantee fast updates of the website, as well as a way to get free update by sms (for example).

Google Maps is quickly updated via "My Maps"
Google News link in the Gmaps bubble provide up-to-date info.
Google reader share items provide more specific source to the website.
Twitter is also very fast and easy to use.

So that could interest some users.

- Specific information.
That's not done yet, but I want different maps covering different kind of information. That would make the point of mapping stronger.

I already have materials for a "Green MappyNews", a mapping of news related to environment.

- A clean design
information website are often clustered. A map is a good way to rank the world information.

- A community
the tools allow collaboration. Even Google Page Creator will (certainly) soon be updated to offer new feature from the wiki world (Jotspot acquired by Google).
This is the attraction which i believe will be the hardest to build. It will take time. First, the website will have to be enough reliable (regular updates) and interesting to attract visitors. Then visitors will eventually be users (user generated content)

NB: I'm not starting a business. This is just a personnal project for the time being. The business approach is just experimental.

Ps: Scoble writes about is new job and why he hasn't start his own business. I can relate to a lot in his explanations. Interesting.


[update] changed "green map" to Green MappyNews, following the comment below.