Comments on: A back fence around a ghost town http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:40:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Paint peeling, weeds growing at Backfence » mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-282398 Paint peeling, weeds growing at Backfence » mathewingram.com/work Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:57:03 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-282398 [...] about local online journalism and Backfence, which has a troubled history. I last wrote about it in this post entitled “Backfence around a ghost town.” Peter Krasilovsky at The Kelsey Group has [...] [...] about local online journalism and Backfence, which has a troubled history. I last wrote about it in this post entitled “Backfence around a ghost town.” Peter Krasilovsky at The Kelsey Group has [...]

]]> By: Paint peeling, weeds growing at Backfence » mathewingram.com/media http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-282397 Paint peeling, weeds growing at Backfence » mathewingram.com/media Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:55:46 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-282397 [...] about local online journalism and Backfence, which has a troubled history. I last wrote about it in this post entitled “Backfence around a ghost town.” Peter Krasilovsky at The Kelsey Group has [...] [...] about local online journalism and Backfence, which has a troubled history. I last wrote about it in this post entitled “Backfence around a ghost town.” Peter Krasilovsky at The Kelsey Group has [...]

]]> By: Bode Media Inc. News http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-187876 Bode Media Inc. News Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:42:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-187876 <strong>Backfence and Local Communities Online...</strong> Everyone involved with any aspect of local blogging has spent much of the last week talking about BackFence, since the chaos going on behind close doors over there seems to have spilled out into the street. Quick background - The company was founded i... Backfence and Local Communities Online…

Everyone involved with any aspect of local blogging has spent much of the last week talking about BackFence, since the chaos going on behind close doors over there seems to have spilled out into the street. Quick background - The company was founded i…

]]> By: On how to finance local news content - Editors Weblog http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-175539 On how to finance local news content - Editors Weblog Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-175539 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Of course not, but it does give rise to concerns. Backfence had constantly grown in the past 18 months, and expanded from the Washington D.C. area to Chicago and the Bay Area. “Its apparent cash flow problems and layoffs could be telling, and a more sustainable hyperlocal strategy could be in an aggregation model like that of the newly launched Placeblogger,” reported the Search Engine Watch.A number of other citizen journalism local websites, such as High Plains Messenger, or Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere, have been forced to shut down due to lack of funding, despite their participatory structure.“Community-based online media thrives when there's strong participation and collaboration. It's not enough just to read the news there, or even to publish your own stories there,” wrote Amy Gahran, from the Poynter Institute.For more concrete and theoretical advice on how to solve cash flow problems for local news aggregators, Gahran pointed out several sources – Steve Outing for Editor & Publisher, Pramit Singh, and Matthew Ingram.Matthew Ingram: “in order to draw people in, a local site has to live and breathe the area it covers, and have lively personalities and content. And maybe giving citizen journalists some financial incentive might help too.”For more details, click below.Source: Poynter.org – matthewingram.com [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Of course not, but it does give rise to concerns. Backfence had constantly grown in the past 18 months, and expanded from the Washington D.C. area to Chicago and the Bay Area. “Its apparent cash flow problems and layoffs could be telling, and a more sustainable hyperlocal strategy could be in an aggregation model like that of the newly launched Placeblogger,” reported the Search Engine Watch.A number of other citizen journalism local websites, such as High Plains Messenger, or Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere, have been forced to shut down due to lack of funding, despite their participatory structure.“Community-based online media thrives when there’s strong participation and collaboration. It’s not enough just to read the news there, or even to publish your own stories there,” wrote Amy Gahran, from the Poynter Institute.For more concrete and theoretical advice on how to solve cash flow problems for local news aggregators, Gahran pointed out several sources – Steve Outing for Editor & Publisher, Pramit Singh, and Matthew Ingram.Matthew Ingram: “in order to draw people in, a local site has to live and breathe the area it covers, and have lively personalities and content. And maybe giving citizen journalists some financial incentive might help too.”For more details, click below.Source: Poynter.org – matthewingram.com [...]

]]> By: ZapTXT Blog » Blog Archive » Gettin’ Local: ZapTXT powers Hoboken411.com, a micro-community blog http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-171962 ZapTXT Blog » Blog Archive » Gettin’ Local: ZapTXT powers Hoboken411.com, a micro-community blog Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:29:08 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/01/06/a-back-fence-around-a-ghost-town/#comment-171962 [...] There’s been quality commentary about local journalism and citizen journalism lately due to the difficult (but hopefully not insurmountable) developments at BackFence. I was drawn to this story by Mathew Ingram’s post that kindled good discussion amongst experts, one of which I certainly am NOT! [...] [...] There’s been quality commentary about local journalism and citizen journalism lately due to the difficult (but hopefully not insurmountable) developments at BackFence. I was drawn to this story by Mathew Ingram’s post that kindled good discussion amongst experts, one of which I certainly am NOT! [...]

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