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Congratulations to local blogs Gapers Block, Chicagoist, CTA Tattler, District 299, Urbanophile, Chicago Carless, 600 Words, and Marathon Pundit, who feature among Chicago's top-20 community-based news sites according to a report released today by grassroots media-relations training organization Community Media Workshop and commissioned by the Chicago Community Trust.
Local Blogs Among Chicago's Top Niche News Sites According to New Report
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Will be blogging about this tomorrow....watch for it...lots to say!
And when you're done blogging, and sitting on Emily Culbertson's fine morning panel, will you be a fly on the wall during my Neighborhood News 2.0 panel at 2? I'll bring Twinkies, if that sweetens the deal...
Ha! Your absence from last year's conference was my chief disappointment with the event. Looking forward to finally meeting up tomorrow.
can't wait to hear what you think, brad!
wow - while all you media elite are sitting up there pontificating, think of me! also, Brad, I posted this link early today and it disappeared...what gives with that? like my comment yesterday. maybe I am doing something wrong.
Not sure what you mean. You posted this Chicago Now link earlier? I don't see it on your profile page.
yes, I did post it. before noon. Maybe I forgot to hit the post comment button. Oh well. who knows?
Must be nice to spend $25,000 to publish a listicle in a PDF document!
Come again? I'm not that bright, you'll have to use smaller words! :)
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but here's the wikipedia definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listicle
My point though is that they spent a lot of money -- basically the starting wage of an entry level journalist these days -- to generate a blogroll ranked by stars and surrounded it with a bunch of essays that rehash every journalism debate that's grown stale during the past few years in the media blogosphere.
In typical old media fashion, they put it into a PDF format (so you can download it and print it out!) instead of doing something useful, like a wiki, and allowing it to expand and grow with the community's input.
Leave it to a bunch of journalists to waste $25,000 to do something they could've crowdsourced and gotten done for free.
Not to defend the cost of the study, but a major consulting firm couldn't even submit a proposal for $25K.
The hardest part was probably tracking down all the sites to populate the list, not an easy thing to do. Interestingly, I think I was one of the last sites they found, and ended up cracking the top 20.
Not a perfect study. Nothing of this nature ever will be. But it's a start at making sense of online media.
agreed. It's a start.
although your wprds judge and criticize more than I would care to I agree with your assessment. I have been advocating for self organizing our news blogs in the flesh as well as online. In fact the wiki is something that I have been talking with others about getting started. I do protest strongly your judgment that my piece on the L3Cs is a stale idea. It is indeed a new idea that most folks STILL don't understand. It is NOT a nonprofit. It is a business. But I will just keep writing about it, until somebody tries it and the collective lightbulb goes off!
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