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January 16, 2009
13:44
Storytlr used to cover the hudson crash web 2.0 style

We never anticipated this type of use for storytlr but journalist Kevin Sablan included many different web 2.0 sources that covered the hudson crash and created a compelling story (see below) as part of his blog post. This 'citizen journalism' story assembled by a professional includes tweets, news footage, twitpic images and youtube movies.

 

 

Previously Arne Hulstein created a story on a bank robbery he witnessed. The little details (police using macbooks) give an unexpected perspective to such a serious story that would be covered differently in traditional media.

 

Is this is a new way to consume big news events? If this type of story makes sense, we may need to rethink storytlr for news events. I'm thinking mentioning sources in the story, maybe even event related accounts to avoid all this noise on your stream. What do you think?

 

Alard & Laurent

Comment by abbashaiderali on 16 Jan 09 at 17:07 CET
I think that it's a great feature of storytlr. I just signed up and plan to use it for the upcoming inauguration.
Comment by alardw on 16 Jan 09 at 18:58 CET
@abbashaiderali looking forward to hear about your inauguration story.
Comment by ksablan on 17 Jan 09 at 8:04 CET
I like your idea of mentioning sources. In the case of tweets, it would help to have real name, user name and avatar.

To clear up the noise in my main stream, accounts could be grouped and/or assigned to stories. Only those assigned to the "main" story would appear in my personal stream.
Comment by ksablan on 17 Jan 09 at 8:06 CET
... oh and THANK YOU for this great tool!