newsQuakes
news breakfast
google/blogger
yahoo?
stygmergy
news understanding
visualization
remove duplicates, organize comment, provide multiple views (time + perspective).
understand the emergence of news - initial news shock, over-loading circuits, through plethora of raw data, huge amount of speculation, then settling into packaged understanding with proper graphics.
9/11 showed media at its rawest, merely conducting the power of the event.
Columbia and the Google/Blogger deal itself.