Abstract: One provides (101) a media source bundle (200) as pertains to a given subject matter of interest to at least one end user. This media source bundle can comprise, for example and at least in part, content source locations for each of a plurality of independent content sources that each offer content regarding the given subject matter and wherein at least some of these independent content sources are associated with mutually non-compatible electronic content-delivery modalities. (In such an application, the media source bundle will be understood to not comprise the content itself.) These teachings will then provide for transmitting (102) a message that comprises, at least in part, this media source bundle to one or more corresponding end user recipient platforms (303).

Abstract: A network element of choice receives (101) information and uses (102) that information to develop a content search query. That network element then instigates (103) a content search using the content search query and receives (104), in turn, content search results comprising a plurality of content items. Profile information for a plurality of playback platforms is then accessed (105) and used (106) to identify which of the content items are best played back on particular ones of the playback platforms.

Abstract: A method for retrieving relevant stories from a collection of stories. The method comprises the steps of identifying at least one query term, applying a cooccurrence matrix to the query term to provide a list of query terms, determining if a story in the collection contains any terms on the list of query terms, and then increasing a relevance measure if the story does contain words on the list of query words. If the relevance measure is higher than a threshold, the story is added to a list of relevant stories.