Wikinews

After reading a recent Chicago Tribune story of the potential acquisition of the Tribune company's newspaper division by Gannet, I was stuck by the reporters point about the company's issue of diminising advertising revnue. While this was not any big surprise, it did get me thinking about what the future of news media might look like. As the prevalance and popularity of Wikis and widgets increase, more and more news sites will increasingly open more channels and opportunities for user-generated content. We're already seeing many local news sites asking their communities to submit stories they'd like to see covered. (what a way to generate content/story ideas...and for free!) Given the fiscal appeal of this "free" content will news sites eventually become a gathering (portal) of user-generated content pulled using widgets from third party content sources? Will they create some sort of revenue-sharing model with their content providers, where they don't even sell ad space, they just take a "commission" or percentage of the revenue their content providers generate through their own advertising (Adsense for example) channels?

Create your own pop up video.

Mojiti an innovative online video product that allows users to include personalized commentary, opinions and insight in web videos. Take the example here using the widely popular web video of OK Go's "Here it Goes Again." Thanks to user feedback, the person watching the video learns a bit more about the band. Pretty cool stuff.