4th
I think, is that we’re finally pushing harder in this direction at The New York Times:
We’re deepening our integrations with Facebook and Twitter.
We’re taking seriously the policy implications of having outside contributors curate and create for Times Topics.
We’ve partnered with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to build the Living Stories prototype— a whole new way to organize content on the web.
We’re beginning to experiment with badging, by including user photos and other identity-based design cues.
All good, for there is significant urgency here as the digital landscape once again is shifting underneath of us.
The introduction of really simple publishing technologies like Twitter, with game like interfaces.
The growing ubiquity of more powerful mobile devices.
An explosion in the use of social services.
