You might want to explore a new Google labs experiment – Google Living Story. Living story is a way to process and follow important news stories. It organizes content around topics (e.g., health care) by time and resource type (articles, people, images). A time line shows developments and also tracks what you have viewed. An explanation appears on Google news.
The organization of content in this fashion offers some clear advantages over traditional online presentation and personal organization through search. My first reaction was that this was quite useful. I began to think about how this was done. If it is simply a way to organize content through some type of tagging system that feeds into a template, I would that the content provides should learn and develop their own version. However, I wonder is this has the potential to work in a different way. If publishers tagged content in a predictable fashion, it would seem reasonable that search of this database of resources might result in content organized in such a fashion – image, date, topic identifier(s); article, date, topic identifier(s). The information says you cannot apply this to a topic of your choice, but I hope that is where this is going.
