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Immersive journalism is an emerging genre in which sound, video, and reporting are melded together and presented with virtual reality technology to put the consumer in the scene, usually experiencing it from the point of view of the participants.

The larger concept is the cultivation of empathy, using the information—sight, sounds—point-of-view—to cause the user to see things he or she wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

It isn’t unreasonable to suggest that the way stories are told and received may fundamentally change in the next twenty to thirty years.  There are many ways to tell stories and to engage an audience.  Immersive journalism places emphasis on engagement through perspective, placing the user inside of the experience.

Kindly is his first effort to come up with an alternative solution. With the app, which launched quietly a couple weeks ago, users can share or receive short conversation prompts in categories like "addiction/recovery," "marriage/divorce," "work/business" and "creativity/inspiration." The app then makes use of an algorithm to try and match the person who put out the prompt with another who may serve as a good listener.

Uber wants you to “paws whatever you’re doing,” because in honor of this week’s Puppy Bowl, the company is teaming up with Animal Planet, the SF SPCA, Peninsula Humane Society, and Berkeley Humane Society to deliver on-demand puppies to your house to hang out with you for a bit

A post on Uber’s blog specified that if you’re selected a “puppy squad and their coaches will come by for a cuddle huddle.”

Will China's Great GREEN Wall save the country from dust storms? 100 billion tree project could halt advancing Gobi Desert

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China is planting huge strips of trees to stop the Gobi DesertFor decades the desert has been advancing and causing serious dust storms in key cities such as BeijingSince 1978 the government has been planting trees to reverse the widespread deforestation that took place in ChinaNow a recent study suggests the project has been a successThey found increased vegetation and lower levels of dust storm intensityBy 2050 100 billion trees will be planted across a tenth of the country