In other words, you aren't going to create the innovative journalism company of the next 10 years by finding additional sources. You'll do it through reinventing the consumption experience, finding new ways to engage users, and curating the really valuable content.

Lauren writes about the new Spot.us design.

"If Mark Zuckerburg hadn’t invented Facebook or Tom Whats-his-name hadn’t invented Myspace, someone would have created them anyway and a very similar product would have resulted because that is the natural progression of the web."

"Does this all sound familiar? It’s like a blog network of the academia breed. If it really takes off and becomes successful, monetize the university blogs and do a rev-share, in which you can start to pay some of those people within the university who continue to provide unique content, which brings in more readers, which brings in more money, etc."

Lauren's thoughts about the surprising move by College Media Network to support WordPress installations.

Lauren's take on why LA is the next big tech hub.

Lauren writes about how multimedia skills are useful outside of just reporting a story.

Lauren Rabaino's first post on 10000 Words about kinetic typography. Lots of great examples.