Future News?

I came across an announcement today for a project out of Google Labs, called Living Stories. It'a an "experiment" between Google, the NYT and the Washington Post to re-present news content for a 21st century audience and in a 21st century medium.

The FAQs (also linked from the bottom of the screen) offer interesting additional information. Clicking on a link from the Living Stories page, though, reveals where the product is going in terms of personalization and other features. Very cool.

And in certain ways, we're back to the future. Google has incorporated into real-time reporting some of the features that Facts.com already offers for historical news (i.e., Recently Deceased or No-Longer-Living Stories).