Living Stories is an interesting new tool from Google. Coupled with the WordPress plugin it will allow the creation of a site centered around a particular news story. You can run the code without WordPress, but as with most things WordPress it makes setup much easier. The tool provides a running stream of news articles on the story. It also provides summaries and provides nice features such as auto-collapsing stories you’ve already seen.
I don’t have a project at the moment to try this out on, but it looks like a great tool for a class focused on some current event, to organize the information and encourage classroom discussion.
We then released a version of the code that runs independent of our infrastructure. The WordPress plugin is a direct result…. We hope the plug-and-play solution will make it easy for you to get a Living Story up and running in almost no time at all.
Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress
With our new plugin and theme for WordPress, you can now run Living Stories on your WordPress-based blog, without dealing with the pain of building and deploying an App Engine or Tomcat application. The plugin will add pages to your admin console that allow you to create our special content types and link them together. The theme will modify your blog’s look and feel and display the posts in the living story format, rather than a simple stream of posts.
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