The Dis-Associated Press?

While the AP remains the default source of national and international news stories and photographs for daily newspapers, the organizations remains (like it’s clients), a bit behind the times when it comes to competing with new media. Although it has recently announced an iPhone app to get news on the go (see more here), they still depend on news being filtered, checked and then processed before “publishing it.” I am doubtful that this is what is needed in this world and certainly trends show us otherwise.

GigaOM (started by Om Malik), announced over the weekend a new service called GigaOM daily. The model has been, I think intentionally, left ambiguous to see how it pans out and molds itself over the coming weeks and months, but for those who are truly addicted to news ‘as it happens’ this could be your pipe… Of course if you’re looking for the finest these services have to offer in grammatical correctness (so to speak), then stick with the AP and its reputation is at least halfway decent. But if you don’t mind some misspelled words (or sometimes even missing words) in sentences (see this post which was linked through GigaOM daily yesterday), then GigaOM daily might work. Either way, it should be interesting to see if people can keep up with most of the “news” or whether they want to. We will reach a saturation point at some point with RSS feeds, Twitters, etc., but for right now lets just keep piling them on and see how relevant the Associated Press remains.