I really like how Google Living Stories is leveraging the ‘life’ of a news story by using the technology and visualizations that work best on the web and give us context.
It’s not just putting print online.
- One link for each story that doesn’t change, but aggregates sources
- Visual timeline gives you context, navigation
- It knows what you read the last time you visited
- It continually updates with new, related stories
- Weighted summaries
- Key Quotations, People,
- Subscribe to email updates
- All types of media: audio/video/images
Example: “The Politics of Global Warming”.
The project was developed by Google in collaboration The New York Times and The Washington Post. Read more details over at the Google blog.
