Story-streaming

I'm looking back at an older Almighty Link post with new eyes today. In the post, Kevin Sablan from the Orange County Register imagines a story-streaming platform, similar to what some people do with lifestreaming. "Thinking of each story as an individual 'life' helps identify the opportunity for developers to create or modify a platform that can meet the needs of news organization."

Sablan says a story-streaming platform should have three key characteristics. It should be story-centric, of course, including elements that make for a good story, such as characters and plot. It should provide the opportunity for real-time curation (one of Sablan's big interests) and filtering. And it should be integrated with what the newspaper already produces, such as making a story-stream out of each item in the police blotter.

Granted, some smaller communities might not have enough information capital to put into a system like this -- or the reporting manpower to accomplish it -- but I think that when small additions here or there are combined with the long tail, you can make something rich online that readers will find value in.

Related posts:

1. Life Streaming
2. Cut This Story! — The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
3. Ethical issue: Local paper edits online-published story with no notice of the edit UPDATED
4. Will your story abide video or audio?
5. Controlling your story