So this is where Alex has been ...

This news release is the best way to explain what I've been working on the last few weeks. I'm one of the folks who's been trying to figure this out and build new tools to make this work. 

We should be going live in a few weeks, and I should then be able to resume boring you with old-school reporting and writing.

NEW YORK - November 23, 2009 - BNO News today announced the launch of the BNO News Wire, a business venture focused on providing comprehensive breaking news coverage to news media companies around the world. Msnbc.com will be the first of the service's new clients. 

BNO News, a news service founded in the Netherlands, currently delivers breaking news alerts to a global audience through the BNO Breaking News iPhone application and its popular Twitter account, @BreakingNews. ...

Msnbc.com has agreed to manage @BreakingNews starting in early December and will continue to provide a 24/7 up-to-the-second feed of breaking news headlines via the Twitter account. This collaboration adds BNO News' wire service to msnbc.com's already robust news-gathering operation and means followers of @BreakingNews will continue to receive the timely news and updates they expect. ...

"News consumers increasingly demand a variety of sources and viewpoints, even while they expect information to find them whenever and wherever they want it," said Jennifer Sizemore, msnbc.com Editor-in-Chief. "BNO News has built its audience following these principles and we are excited to use our partnership with them to build on the fastest, most comprehensive feed of breaking news on Twitter."   

In essence, a small team of us have been working on how to hit the ground running on a real-time social media feed of live breaking news that comes with 1.4 million followers already in place.

The full BNO release is here.