Microsoft Research's Fuse Labs has released NewsPad, a blogging tool for people who wish to collaborate on writing news posts in real time, as an open source project



From Neowin:

Microsoft Research has its hands in a lot of projects, including some that might not be considered by others to be of interest to the company. Many of those projects come from Fuse Labs, including the Socl social network. This week, another project from Fuse Labs, NewsPad, is now available for anyone to use as an open source effort.

The Fuse Labs blog reveals that NewsPad began as a project from MIT graduate student Nathan Matias as a way to help improve news sites run by local communities instead of larger media organizations like newspapers. The software allows for several people to collaborate and edit stories in real time, including headlines, articles, image links and more.

  Microsoft releases NewsPad blogging tool as open source