The user-tailored newsroom

Link: The Content Management System Is Dead. Long Live the Context Management System., by Burt Herman at Hacks / HackersI thought this was a pretty compelling demo. It’s obviously a proof of concept, but it points to some interesting places journalism could go, and it opens up some new platform questions in the process.In Burt’s vision, the reader has a profile that expresses their interests, and then the newsroom curates material that is surfaced using that lens. His demo makes that more concrete: here he’s pointed an engine at communications from New York City Mayor Mamdani’s office, and set up personas like “renter in Bushwick” and “parent in Park Slope” that are served a briefing drawn from different information depending on that persona’s particular lens. A parent in Park Slope receives more information about schools in that neighborhood; a retiree in the West Village receives information about their neighborhood but also about services that pertain to them.You can easily imagine…