Archive for 'Hyperlocal'
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 […]
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Interview with Tom Evslin
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
Looking over attendees for the New Business Models for News Summit you might be confused as to why Tom Evslin was there. Many of the names you would recognize as professional life-long journalists or entrepreneurs. Tom, however, is not and has never been a journalist. But his sharp understanding of networks and networked economies is […]
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Interview – Dave Chase and Experimenting in the Revenue Side
Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
May the post Summit interviews continue. This one with Dave Chase from NewWest and Sun Valley Online. (Learn more about NewWest from this interview with Jonathan Weber from the 2007 Summit) Click To Play [Disclaimer: The audio isn’t perfect. This is interview #2 via Skype. I’m using iShowU to record my screen. I will soon […]
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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 […]
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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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Mike Orren – Pegasus News
Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your Work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. President and founder of Pegasus News, which launched in DFW in 2006. We’re a “panlocal” site, meaning that we deliver hyperlocal news and data on an entire metro area. We then customize that content for each individual user via a mechanism called “The Daily You.” We use a hybrid of […]
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Barry Parr – Coastsider
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I publish Coastsider, a news and community site for coastal San Mateo County — a community of 30,000 people, 30 minutes from San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Although I helped build Mercury Center and CNET News.com, I had never practiced journalism before I started Coastsider in 2004. During the daylight […]
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Rick Burnes – Faneuil Media
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. I’ve spent the last year and a half bootstrapping Faneuil Media, an online news startup. Initially, my partner Theo Burry and I focused on creating content for news sites using public data and open applications like Google Maps. Last year we broadened our scope with Atlas, a mapping tool that […]
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Martin Huber – Myheimat.de
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. Myheimat.de combines printed magazines and an online-platform for hyper-local communities. A network of 5.000 contributors (citizen reporter) submit thousands of stories and the community picks stories for hyper-local printed freesheets (monthly, close to 100% UGC) which reach a combined circulation of 120.000. As founder of a local monthly freesheet in […]
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Martin Huber – Myheimat.de
Posted on 05. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Your work in networked/citizen/collaborative journalism. Myheimat.de combines printed magazines and an online-platform for hyper-local communities. A network of 5.000 contributors (citizen reporter) submit thousands of stories and the community picks stories for hyper-local printed freesheets (monthly, close to 100% UGC) which reach a combined circulation of 120.000. As founder of a local monthly freesheet in […]
