Tag: hyperlocal
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EveryBlock: One-Stop Shop for Local Info – E-Media Tidbits
“The second experiment, once we’ve released EveryBlock’s code, will be to find out whether news organizations or citizens will want to take on the responsibility of publishing similar sites in their own communities.” – Adrian H. EveryBlock: One-Stop Shop for Local Info – E-Media Tidbits
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Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them – Bokardo
“Strong social sites build value one user at a time. If one user finds value, then they’re much more likely to tell others or invite their friends.” – via Joe. Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them – Bokardo
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Rolling the Dice – American Journalism Review
“Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers’ futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures is not bright.” — By Paul Farhi of the WaPo. Rolling the Dice – American Journalism Review
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Knight Foundation grant | Holovaty.com
Adrian gets a million bucks to work with, leaves wapo.com. Knight Foundation grant | Holovaty.com
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MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Hyper-Local Citizen Media Sites Learn How to Serve Small Communities | PBS
Lessons learned from some hyperlocal efforts: Work hard, seed clouds, don’t expect instant profit, build community by example, cheerlead. MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Hyper-Local Citizen Media Sites Learn How to Serve Small Communities | PBS
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Crosscut Seattle
Local news from locals and aggregated from professional news sources. Can this work in a city the size of Seattle? Probably. Crosscut Seattle
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Citizen journalism – Editor’s Notebook
One of my bosses after attending a Dan Gillmor/JD Lasica talk: “But I wonder: how many people will be joining in. Are citizen-journalists merely going to be talking to each other? Or is this the future?” Citizen journalism – Editor’s Notebook
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Act now or buy later – Lucas Grindley
“In all of our markets, there is room for just one PoliticsNJ. Just one. So act fast or later you’ll find yourself opening the company’s wallet to buy a competitor.” Act now or buy later – Lucas Grindley
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Community | share.triangle.com
Raliegh, NC newspaper’s newish community site. Nice, feature rich, lots of buttons to push, pretty clean and clear. Makes it look easy to participate. Runs on Drupal. Community | share.triangle.com
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Live newspapers and dead deer | yelvington.com
How small does a newspaper have to be to make this work? Are we short-changing the community if we shuffle all their life events off to the “community” site, or do birthday party pictures belong in our paper? Live newspapers and dead deer | yelvington.com