One of my heroes in new media is Rob Curley, vice president of new products at The Washington Post who honed his new media chops at the online paper in Lawrence, Kansas. If you want to know where the online news industry will be in a few years, watch what Rob and his team are doing today. In this 5-minute "video interview ":http://blip.tv/file/get/Jdlasica-RobCurleyOnNextStepsInNewMedia859.mp4conducted at the Online News Association conference in Toronto last week, Rob talks about the Post's remarkable "OnBeing series":http://specials.washingtonpost.com/onbeing/, its new citizen media site "Loudounextra.com":http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/, mobile technology, geo-tagging and more. "MPEG-4 video on Blip.tv":http://blip.tv/file/get/Jdlasica-RobCurleyOnNextStepsInNewMedia859.mp4 "Flash video on Internet Archive":http://www.archive.org/details/RobCurleyOnNextStepsInNewMedia