Paper.li examines links that you share on Twitter, and links shared by people you follow, to produce what it calls a “daily newspaper.” The results are mixed but promising for a service that is in its “alpha” stage. This service is very similar to Twitter Times, which I looked at last year. Trends You don’t [...]
A single news item is only important to a reader if it makes sense within a larger context. An example An example that journalist Matt Thompson offers up is the torrent of news items about health-care reform. Each item only makes sense if you understand the bigger picture. CUNY Professer Jay Rosen hails an NPR [...]
Journalists have traditionally decided when a story ends, taking into consideration the amount of new information, open questions, public interest and a slew of other factors. But when do stories powered by streams of information end? Each image below links to news about President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize, as gathered by real-time search [...]
As I continue to explore the details for a storystreaming platform, I need to figure out how tweets should be integrated into a story. The challenge, of course, is that there is no one right way. Just as a third person point of view works for some stories, but not all, tweets will need to [...]
