Interesting perspective. You state that:
"The new process for the multiplatform era: Deliver what you know immediately through a blog or the web, use social media like Twitter and Facebook to develop the story and an audience, post more online as you learn, involve readers at every step through their comments and expertise, publish repeatedly until the story loses steam, fix what’s wrong on the fly, and leave it all there as a permanent resource."

I don't see many traditional newspapers doing this effectively. Maybe you'd care to comment on this.

Also you end by raising the notion that the creator has power and can use that power to build communities of interest. That's an interesting notion and one that I agree with. The "creator" provides the context for the conversation to follow.

What I don't see newspapers doing is leveraging this power to "build communities" particularly through the use of techonolgy. Leveraging social media API's (Twitter would be a great start for all newspapers) and leveraging advanced search technologies (categorization and clustering for example) seems to provide a significant opportunity to add value and possibly drive value through the news site.

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this.

Hi Darren,

Thanks for the link to Spark I didn't know about it. Other than the wiki (which is outside the main site) though I don't see much beyond allowing comments. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of incorporating new information into the original article.

Why for example, couldn't you find a way of promoting a comment if it is informative or is stimulating alot of debate? Or how about allowing "free comments" that Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian talked about recently (and Mathew Ingram blogged about a couple of days ago).