A Latte With Journalism on the Side

Several coffee shops set to open next month in the Czech Republic plan to offer more than the usual array of cafe services. As they sip their drinks, visitors will also be able to surf the Web, get help in building social networking profiles or even chat with reporters working right next door putting together their local newspapers.

The newsrooms-cum-cafes are part of a new venture in so-called hyperlocal journalism, which aims to reconnect newspapers with readers and advertisers by focusing on neighborhood concerns at a neighborhood level: think garbage collection schedules, not Group of 7 diplomacy.

Google News可以算是一种新闻模式的创新，ohmynews.com、digg.com也是。twiqqer.com也讲是。sina是一种，城市联盟是一种，这些模式其实都可以借鉴youtube.com上的一种功能，即可以按点击量排名；但是又有所不同：

新闻在页面上的排序是动态的，谁着点击率的改变而改变先后

而这点，我在任何渠道上都没看到的。