• ReadWriteWeb, Monday, April 25, 2011 12:14 PM

Making platform-agnostic new-media journalists out of anyone, Storify just opened to public beta. The start-up lets users pull together information from social media -- including, tweets, videos, photos, and various links -- and build stories that include both content and commentary. "It's as simple as dragging and dropping the items from your Twitter timeline, from Flickr, from YouTube, from RSS feeds into the story-builder," promises ReadWriteWeb.

"When you're done, you have an easily embeddable story." Uses can also opt to notify the people whose tweets they've included. With the advent of Storify, ReadWriteWeb is predicting a fresh wave of start-up journalism, along with more original storytelling from established reporters.

NPR's Andy Carvin, noted for his curation of Twitter during the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, "storified several of these episodes," ReadWriteWeb notes. Storify addresses the fact that news no longer emanates from traditional media sources or even from blogs, adds ReadWriteWeb. "Much of it now comes from social streams as well, and oftentimes the news, analysis, and reactions via sites like Twitter are stories unto themselves."

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