April 2009
2 posts
Exploring new models of local news
I moderated a panel this week at Seattle City Hall about neighborhood news and several other promising approaches to creating sustainable local news businesses on the web. Among those on the panel: Tracy Record from WestSeattleBlog, Scott Dunham from Neighborlogs and CentralDistrictNews, and Mike Davidson from Newsvine.
I posted a quick summary here, and you can watch video of the event...
MyBallard.com surpasses 50k uniques
We’ve been astounded at the growth of MyBallard.com, Next Door Media’s first neighborhood site to launch. At last check, we cracked the 50,000 monthly unique user mark. How can that be, you ask, in a neighborhood of 30,000 people? Well, Google Analytics treats unique users as unique computers, so if a Ballard resident reads us both at home and at work, that’s two unique users....