Via the NYT Today: Once ESPN establishes itself in local markets, it plans to move deeper into local sports — down to the high school level and perhaps beyond — by using social networking and other technology to inform its journalism. Sounds familiar (Steven Johnson, Old Growth Media And The Future Of News): Measured by [...]
…with BrightKite: Looks like there’s another Twitter-like contender out there called BrightKite. I just received a private invitation (as an aside, I hate that crap – enough of this exclusivity, in-crowd, 8th grade schoolyard nonsense) and created a profile. There is automatic Twitter integration which is nice, and I love how you can see locations, [...]
I’ve posted here in the past about hyper-local content and its potential power & usefulness. I’ve also linked up one of the original hyper-local sites out there (one I’ve contributed to): Outside.In. As well as pointed out a very thought provoking essay by Steven Johnson, The Pothole Paradox. Well there’s a newcomer to the party [...]