Here is an interesting project among the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Google, called Living Stories.
http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/
The blurb says:
All in one place
Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritized on one URL. You can now quickly navigate between news articles, opinion pieces and features without long waits for pages to load.
Easy to explore
Each story has an evolving summary of current developments as a well as an interactive timeline of critical events. Stories can be explored by themes, significant participants or multimedia.
Smarter reading
Updates to the story are highlighted each time you come back, and older news is summarized.
The page on Global Warming is interesting: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/lsps/climatechange#OVERVIEW:false,false,false,n,n,n:null
Potentially, it seems to have some similarities with Wikipedia.
Could librarians be involved?
James Weinheimer j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu<mailto:j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu>
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
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Received on Wed Dec 09 2009 - 06:24:47 EST