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At my project: http://localhero.biz/
we are doing this in a much better way open way. Time will tell if the backend will scale, but as its not coisting me a cent it will only grow.
Mathew: thanks for mentioning my thoughts. One example of such a phenomenon was the EveryBlock tribeca page, which had some articles about a museum being threatened or some such thing. I'd say that the interest group for such a news item draws from a much larger catchment area than tribeca, and that given its niche nature probably has few people in any given district of the city, but a reasonably sized population overall. Point being: hyper-localization has yet to prove itself.
You know what would be a worthy experiment? How about nyc.digg.com or sf.digg.com? You'd need the built in population of a popular social news site like digg to kickstart it, but then rock & roll.
Reddit is apparently rolling out the ability to build your own sub-Reddit.
If I were a newspaper I would jump on that idea.
Although I think given their money and the free publicity from bloggers on the payroll (not you Rod), I don't think they need any pats on the back.
Re local Digg the user base in any locality is very small so I am not sure it would reach critical mass. I am looking to add some sort of user content filtering to my site though shortly.
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