Tag Archives: Baristanet
Happy Birthday, Baristanet
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
From Jeff Jarvis, via Buzzmachine.
Baristanet, the queen of hyperlocal blogs, is five years old today.
I remember well the NJ.com Meetup we held back then to try to encourage locals to blog on our site. I learned an important lesson there. Debbie Galant, the original Barista, said starting a town blog was a good idea but [...]
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Rapporteur Wrap-up – Ben Wagner for Networking Group
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Ben Wagner on behalf of the Networking Group.
If “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of endpoints,” then one task as digital journalists is to scale our networks — be they organically-grown, hyperlocal blogs or corporate-driven, international communities — as quickly and effectively as possible.
In a broadly-ranging, nearly [...]
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The people formerly known as the audience
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by daniel.massey.
Participants:
Dan Pacheco, Northwest Voice, John Wilpers, Boston Now; Jarah Euston, Fresno Famous; Dan Barkin, Raleigh News and Observer
Moderator: David Cohn
The panelists talked of their development of user-generated content on the local level, involving those who Barkin called “people formerly known as the audience.”
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Debbie Galant – Baristanet
Posted on 13. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: Debra Galant began her journalism career in 1977 and by 1998 was a New Jersey columnist for the New York Times. After the Times gave her column to someone else, Galant received the URL Debragalant.com as a birthday present from her husband. The next three months Galant spent starting a personal typepad [...]
