27 February 2009 – 4:21 pm
For obvious reasons – having done the KnightNews Challenge, having followed the progress of the winner Adrian Holovaty and his EveryBlock platform and having watched Rob Curley push the envelope with his Loudon County efforts out of the Washington Post…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=85
… we’ve always kept an interested eye on the US local start-up scene.
And next out of [...]
23 February 2009 – 2:20 pm
I suspect that in the ever-lengthening rap sheet we can lay at the door of ‘Fred The Shred’ and his fellow clowns at the Royal Bank of Scotland, this particular piece of news will get lost – after all, it’s not billions we’re talking here.
Just hundreds of millions. Of our money. Going down the proverbial [...]
21 February 2009 – 1:04 pm
To carry on this week’s revolutionary theme – and Mr Greenslade’s sense that, perhaps, the funding of new media [big and small] might have to gird its loins, swallow hard and accept a post-capitalist model along not-very-much-by-way-of-a-profit lines – the People’s Republic of South Devon chimes beautifully with these times.
More so than for anyone hoping [...]
19 February 2009 – 12:07 pm
This was interesting on a number of accounts; as was Roy’s recent, er, ‘mis-understanding’ with the sub-editing world of which my Mrs is still, just, a proud and defiant part.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/feb/18/newspapers-local-newspapers
Because the fact that Roy is now dusting off his 60s roots and finding that first, intoxicating whiff of revolution in his nostrils is – for [...]
18 February 2009 – 12:35 pm
We’ve kind of touched on this before; or rather Ms Kiss did… that in amidst all the hand-wringing and quizzical ‘Er, what next…?’ looks that accompanied Lord Carter’s first stab at a vision for ‘Digital Britain’, there was barely a mention for anyone on the independent start-up scene.
Us VIPs, weren’t even a blip on their [...]
18 February 2009 – 12:06 am
AOL now restored… let’s roll…
Thanks to two of the usual suspects for pointing me in the direction of this new, hyper-local baby.
www.patch.com
The fact that ‘Patch’ comes with the names J Jarvis and Google attached – or in the background mix – merely adds to the interest, as Pete spotted…
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2009/02/17/google-to-us-newspapers-we-could-acquire-you-but-whats-the-point/
Jeff, Google and OWAB have had a [...]
14 February 2009 – 11:05 am
Tis now an AOL fault, apparently. They’ve got a recorded message on their helpline admitting as much. Personally, as big a fan of Loddon’s conservation area as I am, I’d not have any objections to a 3G digital phone mast being discretely slapped on top of the 16th Century church tower…
Here we go. Again.
The Newspaper [...]