Quartz Pushes the Experimental News Envelope by Using Dave Winer's Outliner Software

By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOM

There are all kinds of experiments going on in digital media, from crowdfunding projects like Beacon Reader to mobile-first apps like Circa, but one of the most consistently experimental sites around is Quartz, the business-news site that Atlantic Media launched last year. Quartz has introduced a number of interesting features since it appeared on the scene — including its “infinite scroll” design and a form of reader comments that it calls “annotations” — and now it has launched another one with a new vertical called Glass.