"But for the Monday night raid at Zuccotti Park, and indeed for much of the Occupation, Storify has come into its own as the social news curation tool par excellence.
In fact, thanks to the media blackout Monday night, some of the most important news outlets in the country would not have had a story if not for Storify.
"All news is social now," says Storify CEO and co-founder Burt Herman. Whoever's on the ground is the reporter, and whoever's curating on the Web is the editor. It doesn't matter who is whom.
"We always talk about quoting from the original sources, from politicians, companies and everybody else, but now the journalists who are normally reporting are the sources.""
Read the full report here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_storifying_occupy_wall_street_saved_the_news_o.php
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