Storify makes it easy to quickly document local news

The Californian's Louis Amestoy has been experimenting with a cool software tool called Storify to quickly and easily produce local stories in an engaging way. 

You can find a few in our Bakosphere blog, but his latest example is this "Social media look at Bakersfield weather" slideshow documenting the storm that hit Bakersfield overnight. Storify's drag-and-drop tools make it easy to monitor social media and deliver a mix of content from pros and everyday people to document news around our town. 

Fun experiment in prepcasting

Updated on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM by Logan Molen

Louis Amestoy has always amazed me with his creativity, tenacity and commitment to taking fresh approaches to journalism to Southern California communities big and small. I’ve known Louis for a few years, and he's always cooking up something.

His latest experiment is a Friday night online prep-football vidcast for the Riverside Press-Enterprise's localized version of the robust HSGameTime prep site. Louis and co-”anchor” Dave Zink deliver a wild 2-hour ride of scores, video, staff interviews, listener calls and chat-room highlights, all built on Louis’ sweat and a mostly ball-and-twine suite of free software.

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