OutWithABang celebrates its first birthday on Monday; we threw our very first pebble into this deep and dark pond of ours on March 16th, 2008 – two nights after me, Paul and Tim all heard we’d been bombed in the Knight News Challenge. Beaten by some bloke called Berners-Lee.
I mean, for f*ck’s sake, what did [...]
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 [...]
29 January 2009 – 6:42 pm
Want to know what a www.mylocalwriter.com/norwich/nr2 story would look like?
It would be the all Videoboo-ing, all Audioboo-ing, backchat-ing version of this…
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=NewsSplash&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=NOED29%20Jan%202009%2016%3A29%3A50%3A770
Slap bang in the heart of that postcode ‘patch’, Tesco versus the Unthank Road locals – and the threat that the supermarket giant brings to the delis, the butchers, the florist and the fish shop [...]
18 December 2008 – 12:07 pm
As I might have mentioned before, I first cut my journalistic teeth on the wonderful weekly newspaper series that was The Wiltshire Gazette & Herald…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=44
Then owned by Westminster Press, there were six editions; each with their slip pages and four with their own district offices – Malcolm in Malmesbury, our Mickey (now of BBC Match [...]
As I mentioned, I was wandering round www.2gether08.com last week – at which Messrs Watson and Loosemore announced the launch of this…
http://www.showusabetterway.com/
…which I can only commend. Nice if they could have found a way to have added another nought onto the end and given 20 great mashes a little pick-me-up, but there we go.
Eyes down [...]
First and foremost, credit. This is Seamus McCauley’s ’spot’.
http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2008/06/second-order-reasoning-comes-to-user-edited-news.html
And he’s quite right – there is something intriguing going on here as you discover once you start to nose round a bit more – http://knewsroom.com/news/home/learn_more
It all starts with the bright young man from www.kluster.com – the bit I really liked is the ‘what happened here…’ link; [...]
There appears to be much fuss being made right now over the ‘failure’ of the Washington Post’s much vaunted foray into the hyper-local news scene via www.Loudonextra.com under the helmsmanship of Rob Curley, a big fan of local…
It was the word ‘flop’ in a WSJ headline that seemed to cause most offence – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121253859877343291.html – [...]