how to adapt the practice and business of journalism to the Web

Make like Dow Jones & Co. and provide a way to integrate real-time news with the tools people use to make resource-allotment decisions

This Dow Jones gizmo, “an application programming interface that allows financial institutions to integrate real-time news and data into their automated trading systems,” is a handy conceptual map: Get relevant news to people whenever they broach a decision about how to spend their time, money, attention or any other measure of a resource.

Maybe this would be a widget tracking Web sites you visit (privacy?) and sending you a news feed about the content upon it.

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