Ein interessanter Artikel von Mark Glaser in der Online Journalism Review:

Local Weblogs Gawk, Stalk -- But Balk at Minting $$- Can they succeed where local city guides failed?

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when CitySearch and Microsoft's Sidewalk were going to take urban areas by storm, offering guides to nightlife and tourists spots and crushing online newspapers right where they lived. Nice try. Instead, they've morphed into city listings, no more than glorified Yellow Pages with bare-bones staff.

Game, set and match to newspaper sites, right? In pure traffic and revenues right now, perhaps. But there's a growing, if fractured, trend among Webloggers who'd like to give a grittier take on cities from the mouths of mouthy citizen/writers. The pre-eminent local Weblog is Gawker, launched by serial entrepreneur and blogger Nick Denton, with the sharp-tongued, addictive voice of writer Elizabeth Spiers taking in New York City in all its manic glory. One original feature is Gawker Stalker, where readers give sightings of celebrities in everyday settings.

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http://www.gawker.com/
http://www.nickdenton.org/