My first post about the idea of storystreaming was a response to Daniel Honigman’s post about the end of live-tweeting, but those ideas had been brewing in my head for some time. Some of those thoughts were inspired by a discussion during the June 17 #editorchat session. Since I’ve recently submitted the storystreaming idea to the Knight [...]
For those of you following the marriage of storytelling and lifestreaming, I have submitted an application for the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Please visit my submission and rate it when you get a chance. Most importantly, please leave comments. How can the project be improved? What tools features need to be covered? What technologies can [...]
Journalists can use Twitter to as a live reporting tool, but what if you are writing a story from afar and are looking for quotes as provided by “citizen” journalists at an event? Simply adding a widget that pulls in tweets about the event will likely just add confusion and repetition. For example, author Chris Brogan [...]
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 [...]
