摘要 |
A method, apparatus, and system of a user-generated community publication in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a geo-spatial environment in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating a physical location and/or an electronic location of the users, processing a user selection of a submit a story idea indicator and/or a become a journalist indicator, processing a submission form when the submit the story idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted story idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time, transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become the journalist indicator and altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author.
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