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