An alliance of German newspapers have initiated a creative news project that involves 1600 blank diary-style books. Each reader cuts and pastes a news article of their choice into a book. They can comment on the article or decorate it in any way they please, but must fill out a form with their age, name and location.
After the reader has completed their page, they upload it to the Toms Book website and then pass the book on to someone else, who continues the process with their own selected news clipping. The finished books will become art pieces.
Providing interactive comments to newspaper articles is in its nascent form on news websites. The Toms Book diaries bring this commentary back to print form. Unfortunately, however, as iHeartBerlin points out, you're unable to subscribe to the comment feed.
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Trend Themes
1. Interactive Print - The Toms Book diaries bring interactive commenting to print form, presenting an opportunity for disruptive innovation in the publishing industry.
2. Crowdsourced News - The project involves readers curating and sharing news articles, creating a potential disruptive innovation opportunity for the media industry.
3. Artistic Journalism - Transforming news articles into art pieces presents a creative and disruptive opportunity for the art industry to blend with journalism.
Industry Implications
1. Publishing - The interactive print format of the Toms Book diaries provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the publishing industry to engage readers in new ways.
2. Media - The crowdsourced news aspect of the project offers disruptive innovation potential for the media industry to involve readers in the news curation process.
3. Art - Blending news articles with art in the form of the Toms Book diaries introduces disruptive innovation opportunities for the art industry to explore new ways of storytelling.