Michael Wolff believes Newser is the top aggregator

Michael Wolff likes to think he’s changing the world. The news aggregator website he founded, Newser, takes long-winded articles and edits them down to Twitter-length pieces. Well, not really that short, but it’s definitely a bullet point type of piece.

While on CNBC, he discussed the new journalism model and how news aggregators are the future of journalism and pointedly said he is trying to put newspapers out of business. (See the video).

FLYPmedia: interactive storytelling at its best

FLYPmedia is unlike any sight I’ve ever seen before. I don’t mean site, but rather visual stimuli. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether that is a good thing or not, especially when media websites, like CNN and others, are grasping at straws for the next big storytelling vehicle. Bells and whistles are great, but if you don’t have wheels then you’re not going very far. I can’t even remember the names of half the sites that have tried that approach.

So, best I can tell and in my sole opinion, FLYPmedia is an 18-wheeled semi-truck. All the necessary components of storytelling are there. Not only is the overall look glossy and pleasing to the eye, but then you start to dig and end up digging the varying links to soundbites, video, or statistics to support the “article’s” theme.

Chicago, Lincoln Park muggings during summer ’09

During the late Chicago summer of 2009, eight robberies occurred. Seven were within a reason distance of each other and could be the result of the same group of individuals responsible for four confirmed robberies/beatings between the days of July 30 and August 1.

For the four muggings believed to be linked, the victims were men in their early 20′s alone during late night hours. In each instance, the individual was confronted from behind by four attackers also in their 20′s. They requested the men’s wallets then beat the individual in the head and face. Two of these attacks required hospitalization.

Later a suspect was identified by the man in the third attack, but the suspect was later released due to lack of evidence.

This map shows the vicinity of the attacks, the progression of two attacks that happened within minutes, and other reported attacks that could be related to confirmed correlations.