61 fresh --- an interesting concept

The Boston Globe's 61 Fresh is fascinating. The Globe has built an algorithm that aggregates tweets from 500 sources in the Boston area. Now, a lot of this is neighborhood-specific news (an example in the story linked here is about a Dunkin Donuts closing) but I suppose that's the point. The neighborhood stuff that locals tweet about  is the stuff they care about and are  engaged in,  It's not Syria, but it's news that captures user interest. Newspapers have been trying to capture that local interest for years, mostly through the failed hyper-local sites.  Maybe this is a way to get there. Now, this probably isn't an immediate money maker but it could provide something even more valuable --- insight into how users are consuming