Can a wiki save a newspaper?

 Newspapers are going down the tubes fast, but some enterprising journalists in San Francisco are turning to a new technology to try to come with with ideas to help save the industry. Following the news this week that Hearst may shut down the San Francisco Chronicle, Sarah Rich and Alexis Madrigal set up a wiki on Seattle's Wetpaint called The San Francisco Post-Chronicle that makes pleas for suggestions to save the city's largest daily newspaper.

The writers from Dwell and Wired.com are asking designers to submit mock ups on what a new-and-improved Chronicle Web site could look like as well as possible distribution methods for the content. And then, of course, there's the tricky question of the business model. more