Check out News at Seven - a project by Nate Nichols and Sara Owsley, Computer Science graduate students at Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab ).
The site claims,
News at Seven is an automatic system that crafts daily news shows. It finds the news you are interested in; edits it; finds relevant images, videos, and external opinions; and then presents it all using a virtual news team working in a virtual studio. News at Seven is a uniquely compelling experience that can present traditional news--augmented with supplemental images, videos, and opinions from the blogosphere—all without human intervention.
Techcrunch has some comments on them, basically saying that they did not find it useful for anyone. Nonetheless the technologist in me is thrilled. It is a pretty good news product. Services such as News at Seven have the potential to form the bridge between the way *majority* of people across the world are used to consuming news and the evolving new way in which news is being delivered.
