The dawn of new trends and media publishing are constantly changing the way that news is reported and presented. Nowadays, most news media have their own Twitter and Facebook accounts to support their online websites and blogs. Even CNN has a Twitter account and it is currently in the top 15 most followed on Twitter according to Twitter Counter.
Twitter is a great tool for voicing one’s thoughts and opinion and giving quick news updates. But Twitter is just another stepping tool to what is to come. According to Condron (2010), curation is currently one of "the chosen" buzz words in the social media zeitgeist.
I mentioned before about Storify. It is one of a number of “curation” services that are trying to make it easier for bloggers or journalists to pull together real-time news from Twitter and other networks and make them into a coherent narrative (Ingram 2010).
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| Storify Testimonials *click to enlarge* |
Testimonials on Storify say, it is said to be the future of journalism and I believe it’s true. Journalist are able to combine real time tweets from real people together with credible news sources to give readers a story with a host of multiple points of views.
So how will this affect our current news media? It doesn’t. Not really. According to Naughton (2006), the reality is that while new communications technologies may not wipe out earlier ones, they certainly change the ecosystem.
Storify can be seen as a participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge, as described on Produsage.org (Snurb 2007).
Storify will just provide a new form of media; it depends on how people will use it to see its affects.
Finally, below is a video on how Storify works. Enjoy. Storify demo from Burt Herman on Vimeo.
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References
Top 100 Users 2010, Twitter Counter, viewed 30 September 2010, <http://twittercounter.com/pages/100>.
Ingram, M 2010, Storify Wants to Pull Stories From the Stream, New Emerging Technology News and Trends: GigaOM Tech News, viewed 30 September 2010, <http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/storify-wants-to-pull-stories-from-the-stream/>.
Testimonials 2010, Storify, viewed 30 September 2010, <http://storify.com/storify/testimonials>.
Snurb 2007, ‘Produsage: A Working Definition,' Produsage.org, 31 December, viewed 20 September 2010, <http://produsage.org/node/9>.
Naughton, J 2006, 'Blogging and the emerging media system,'
