http://mathewingram.disqus.com/enSun, 27 Jan 2008 03:14:21 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-104257<p>Your right Rod I should not slag my competitors or anybody.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.<br><a href="http://localhero.biz/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://localhero.biz/">http://localhero.biz/</a></p>LocalHeroSun, 27 Jan 2008 03:14:21 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-100877<p>I agree, Rod. I think local Diggs (or Reddits) would be a great idea -- and<br>Reddit is apparently rolling out the ability to build your own sub-Reddit.<br>If I were a newspaper I would jump on that idea.</p>mathewiFri, 25 Jan 2008 09:15:02 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-100470<p>Dear LocalHero: you'll find *not* slagging your competitors to be much more effective at spreading the word about your service.</p><p>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.</p><p>You know what would be a worthy experiment? How about <a href="http://nyc.digg.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="nyc.digg.com">nyc.digg.com</a> or <a href="http://sf.digg.com?" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="sf.digg.com?">sf.digg.com?</a> You'd need the built in population of a popular social news site like digg to kickstart it, but then rock &amp; roll.</p>rod / techfold.comFri, 25 Jan 2008 01:41:10 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-100361<p>Personally I don't think either approach is very user friendly (everyblock or <a href="http://outside.in" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="outside.in">outside.in</a>), and I am surpised for the cash outlays how much they suck</p><p>At my project: <a href="http://localhero.biz/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://localhero.biz/">http://localhero.biz/</a></p><p>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.</p>LocalHeroThu, 24 Jan 2008 23:38:16 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-98333<p>I will encourage the <a href="http://outside.in" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="outside.in">outside.in</a> team to do that</p><p>fred</p>fredwilsonThu, 24 Jan 2008 09:42:02 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-98325<p>I'm glad to hear that, Fred. I'd appreciate it if you could keep me in<br>the loop about those plans.</p>mathewiThu, 24 Jan 2008 09:39:01 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/01/24/everyblock-redefines-the-local-news/#comment-98311<p>matthew - getting <a href="http://outside.in" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="outside.in">outside.in</a> to canda is a priority for us</p>fredwilsonThu, 24 Jan 2008 09:34:06 -0000