Mike Orren: "Earthlink joins
the hordes trying to do local via aggregation, in this case using
Topix and Google."
He also notes that "any successful local play has to be a hybrid of original content and
aggregation." (which the Earthlink product is not)
Mike’s right. The aggregation can help jumpstart the community with consumer generated content then carrying the ball forward.
MediaPost Publications – New Search Engine Will Give Users Premium Content, For Free Congoo’s business model questioned (tags: PaidContent VerticalSearch Search)
Today’s recommended reading is a bit all over the map. There’s something here to please communicators, entrepreneurs, consumers, and probably a half dozen other demographics. Don’t get too used to it, though, because I’m just as likely to get hung up on a single topic tomorrow.
Politics can be a dirty business, that’s certain. In the trenches, many will do the unthinkable. Now some are speculating about PR firms creating fake blogs for the Bush Administration … or even Democrats creating fake fake blogs in an attempt to implicate the President’s team. Let’s not get too carried away here. Professional public…
I took most of the day off yesterday to spend time with my family – and was I surprised to see my inbox when I got back to it! As a fellow blogger, I understand the importance of a fast, accurate response to issues raised in the blogs. Unfortunately, in a case of the cobbler’s…
Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world. It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations. For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…
WashingtonPost.com offers a commentary on the ongoing Politics Online Conference at George Washington University. It notes that one of the speakers this year came from JibJab, the outfit that created the widely viewed online parody titled "This Land." (If you haven’t seen it, you must not have had an Internet connection last fall.) The piece…