All about local-search

Wiki what? Wiki who? Wiki why?

February 2, 2009

Carlos Virgen rounds up some thoughts on wiki use by news organizations, but I always get the feeling that most reporters and editors stop reading at the word “wikitorial,” freak out, and hide under the desks.
Still here?
Good. Carlos has a great idea about using a wiki as a “contextual archive” for related stories. (Matt Thompson [...]

The local follies: Finding the horizontal bonds in geographic communities

September 29, 2006

[Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.]
The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas.
Now that I have your attention…
Online newspaper execs might [...]