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OakBook Puts Hyper-Local Model to Work: Around two and a half years ago, experienced journalists Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar and Alex Gronke decided to bring what was at that time a mostly abstract concept -- hyper-local news -- to Oakland, the sprawling metropolis at the other end of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The pair...; Tags: Advertisement, Oakland, Web Site, Magazine, OakBook, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, David Weir; Blog posts 2009-07-13

Knowledge Genie: A New Tool to Monetize Your Content: A concern many of us have re: companies like The New York Times when they say they are going to start charging for online content soon is based in the sense that they remain stuck inside the box of a traditional business model; one thatâ€™s broken. Most...; Tags: Knowledge, Tool, Knowledge Genie, Strategy, Management, David Weir; Blog posts 2009-07-29
Geo-Coded Twitter + Hyper-Local Media = CoolBiz Model: The San Francisco Street Food Festival today brought together "micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors and renowned chefs" in a celebration of street food and the entrepreneurial spirit, both of which are alive and thriving in this town, even in the midst of (in fact, partly due to) a prolonged recession. ...; Tags: Twitter Inc., Media, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, David Weir; Blog posts 2009-08-22
Fwix Aggregates Local News, Compensates Bloggers, Filling a Void: In the ongoing debate over the future of the media business, especially when it comes to news, the extremes tend to dominate, and not just ideologically. "The future is hyper-local." "The future is global." "Algorithms can do it all." (Google News.)...; Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Advertisement, Extremes, Blogger, Fwix, Blogging, Internet, David Weir; Blog posts 2009-12-04