The Story Incubator

Hey Guys,



So I was thinking about what the judges said to us when we were being critiqued for The Wanderer.



I remember one of them asking us "are you selling this to the consumer or to the distributor?"



That got me thinking.



With all this new feedback-ready, user created content type stuff, I think maybe we focus too much on the consumer and expect him to become a creator. Maybe we can somehow help or create something for the creators or distributors that would help them push that content out.



So this idea struck me when I was doing some research for producers at CBS... what about creating a resource for journalists (professional and personal) to help generate story ideas?



I know its like "shouldn't journalists be able to find their own stories?" Well yes. But I'm also sure that many stories go unreported because many stories are never identified as stories.



We could create a system where a person finds a problem in his community, goes home, logs on to a facebook/digg.com database (of course) and posts an idea for a story. At the same time the journalist who is about to do another story on Paris Hilton finds this great story within the community on StoryIdeas.com (or something). Boom, many winners.

I think it would be a useful website for many different parties. thoughts?