What is storystreaming?

Lifestreaming is a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline. Kevin Sablan has taken that simple idea and applied it to the news media. He has an idea for a platform that would allow any piece of content to blossom into a real-time curated story powered by social media.

Read more: http://almightylink.ksablan.com/2009/06/lifestreaming-why-not-a-storystreaming-platform/

And here's a link to a rough sketch of Sablan's idea: http://almightylink.ksablan.com/2009/07/first-rough-sketch-of-storystreaming-platform-twitter-first/

A new way of bringing the news to the community

Daniel Bachhuber has come up with an innovative take on bringing news to the community in The Newsroom as a Cafe. He says this concept is about "repositioning the news organization as the information hub for the community."

The idea is part citizen journalism, part Starbucks, part MashupCamp and totally out-of-the-box, which is why I like it so much.

Great example of crowdsourcing

For its coverage of the health care reform legislation in Washington, NPR was putting together Dollar Politics, a series looking at how lobbyists are trying to influence the debate. That's when they began their crowdsourcing project, "Turning the Camera Around." They took a panoramic photo of the audience attending a June 17 Senate hearing and turned to the audience for help in naming the lobbyists.

Poynter.org has a nice interview about it: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=165824

Alltop - Magic City remix?

Much like the popular news aggregator Alltop, The Miami Herald plans to unveil a page that will aggregate content from more than 200 blogs and other media outlets throughout South Florida. The Herald also created a widget that would allow bloggers to embed a feed of all or a portion of the South Florida blogs directly into their own blog.

Read more about it here: http://carlosmiller.com/2009/06/08/check-out-the-miami-heralds-new-blog-aggregator/

Newspaper Web site advertising experiment using Real-Time Ads

Small local advertisers represent a $24 billion market nationwide. MinnPost.com is trying to tap into that market by offering advertisers a short feed on certain parts of their Web site for a modest weekly fee.

It's easy for advertisers, it's cheap and it's not a lot of work for the news organization. Knight Digital Media Center's Michele McLellan asks, "Do you think this model would work for your site? How are you capturing local advertising dollars online?"

Spreading the wealth and keeping it local

South Carolina's Aiken Standard did something a lot of community newspapers have forgotten how to do: mobilize their community. By helping local businesses, they helped themselves to some hard-earned revenue. Read the inspiring story.