Down And Out In The 'Burbs
Turns out it's tough to make local work on the Web
Beloved backyard media efforts dot the U.S. There are scruffy independents, like iBrattleboro.com in Vermont or baristanet.com in New Jersey. There are those attached to extant operations, à la the News & Record. But, as Backfence found, to build a site from scratch is very difficult. (A former Backfencer says explaining the site to potential users left them feeling they were being sold something, as opposed to being given something.) And building one ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
