The Southwest Observer is an online newsource for the residents of Mount Greenwood, Beverly, and  Morgan Park which are all Chicagoland neighborhoods.  What is interesting is that they recently launched a live video streaming feature to their news using Qik technology.  I find this to be not only exciting but an extremely powerful method to engage residents within their local communities.  While ASBN.tv plans to do this on a much larger scale due to the size of cities in it’s portfolio, the grassroots principle is the same…..lifestyle close to home.  Read more here regarding the Southwest Observer and you will see that this trend will only increase as print media takes a new face online:  http://www.southwestobserver.com/news/observer-live

The world is rapidly changing and so are our entertainment needs. The traditional family room model of sit and watch on a TV set seems yarns ago. Today we are mobile and and unconfined. Everyone in one household can be watching something different and be in different areas….at home….in the car….in a hotel….wherever.. Content has become so mobile that “WE” control it and it does not control us. At ASBN.tv we are working on ways to deliver raw content to you whereever YOU are. We will not be the millions of sprouting clones you see aggregating and passing along the same content. We will show you something unique when we come out of our shell (beta). Our Geo cities will be about YOU and your city in an all encompassing