News the Crowd Can Use
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Assignment Zero looks at "crowdsourced" media sites, which love to equate social editing with democracy. It's as raucous, messy and enthralling as the electoral process, and for proof look no further than the much-debated DVD hack posted at Digg.com.
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Also: Google Shared Stuff plays well with others. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Long before the mass media overload of television, radio and computers, newspapers were the main source of information on local, national and international events.
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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How two words illuminate the shift of power from the media to the people
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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Several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news.-Leslie Walker
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People around the world are coming together to celebrate the world wide web and its impact on people.
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Also: Seeking readers via online 'book trailer'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Anonymous  The announcement in Septem
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Mar.
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Text of report by Estonian newspaper Postimees website on 5 September  [Commentary by Rein Veidemann: "Media Circus"]  Elections make for fatty raw material to the free media. The supply of news and opinions is far greater than the demand.
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I find it a right thing to do for the people to be informed about what is going on and what is not.
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News and information junkies are taking a new look at RSS, a technology that helps them feed their habit without getting overwhelmed in the clutter of the information age.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 18--When is a big announcement not a big deal?   When it doesn't amount to a big hill of beans in the solution to a big problem.