News & improved
* Steven Johnson’s Outside.in has launched some new features and announced funding from, among others, Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham (who write about it here) and Marc Andressen. I care about local and, like Fred, see huge swaths of unclaimed territory there online.
* Andrew Tyndall has long been the authority on network news coverage, but it was hard to get to his stuff because it was a newsletter. Now it’s an impressive site with a grid that lets you view and compare the nets’ coverage of top stories.
(Disclosures: I was asked to join the advisory board for Outside.in and was on the board of one of Johnson’s earlier companies, which created Plastic.com. And I gave Andrew my two cents on his plan in return for a free lunch.)
Tags: newsinnovation
February 28th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Very nice JOB. Local news rocks. But they need to get away from sourcing a bulk of the posts as coming from Feedburner. Feebburner is not the source. It’s just a tool for optimizing content distribution.
I should add, I’m a fan and this nugget of wisdom, irksome as it is, in good faith. I opened the page for Seattle and half the items had Feedburner written on them. I understand they’re using Feedburner, or else bloggers are, but it’s a little like saying “from PHP” or “from AJAX.” We don’t do that.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Does anyone even care about network news anymore?
I feel bad for anyone that has to watch all the network newscasts, every single day.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I just discovered I don’t really care about reports of potholes and traffic deaths no matter how local they are.
Sometimes the noise of daily life is worth ignoring. Hyper local seems hyper boring.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:47 am
And the big pictures reminds me of a so called piece of art last summer at Columbia College (Chicago) … a robotic mannequin beating his head against the wall.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Jeff: You’re supposed to espouse transparency, right? Yet here you are, telling us about a supposed “free lunch,” without mentioning what was served? A delicious croque monsieur? Salad? Diet Coke? Were fries involved? What did Tyndall order and when?
I’m also p.o.’d because I gave Tyndall two cents worth of advice and didn’t even get a bag of chips.
Curses.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:05 am
We continue to see ventures focused on local content, but who is focused on aggregating local advertising, which is presumably a critical component of the revenue model for these types of ventures?