Comments for Faneuil Media http://faneuilmedia.com/blog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:38:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 Comment on What’s the Significance of Place? by Rick http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/06/01/whats-the-significance-of-place/#comment-3476 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:04:59 +0000 http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/06/01/whats-the-significance-of-place/#comment-3476 Howell -- I completely agree. Unique content or information is what people want. But it's not what makes place unique. People want content about place just like they want content about cats, dogs, the iphone and xbox. What's different about place is the scale -- the pool of people able to create that content is limited. If you're interested in dogs, you can find relevant content around the world. If you're interested in content from Cambridge, MA, there are only about 100,000 people who can help you. Howell — I completely agree. Unique content or information is what people want. But it’s not what makes place unique. People want content about place just like they want content about cats, dogs, the iphone and xbox.

What’s different about place is the scale — the pool of people able to create that content is limited. If you’re interested in dogs, you can find relevant content around the world. If you’re interested in content from Cambridge, MA, there are only about 100,000 people who can help you.

]]> Comment on What’s the Significance of Place? by Howell Jones http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/06/01/whats-the-significance-of-place/#comment-3475 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:55:50 +0000 http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/06/01/whats-the-significance-of-place/#comment-3475 I was in complete agreement until the last paragraph... "In the long run, once this scale problem is solved, there shouldn’t be much that’s unique about place on the web. It’s a criteria that’s relevant and important to many, many people, but at the end of the day, it’s just another way to organize information and communication." The consumer is looking for unique content! Yellow pages is finding this out - Name- Address -Phone Number does not help the merchant with selling the "sizzle" or uniquness of their business...Unique content is King to Google - as without this creative input...well...it Blah-Blah-Blah... Never forget that special funtion of hyper-local content is that there is so much to embrace - We only have 2000 cities to investigate on DiscoverOurTown, but that investigative task is HUGE...as we take time to interview the local merchant and let consumers know the special qualities - creative outlets of that business....The power of unique content is what consumers really want! I was in complete agreement until the last paragraph…

“In the long run, once this scale problem is solved, there shouldn’t be much that’s unique about place on the web. It’s a criteria that’s relevant and important to many, many people, but at the end of the day, it’s just another way to organize information and communication.”

The consumer is looking for unique content! Yellow pages is finding this out - Name- Address -Phone Number does not help the merchant with selling the “sizzle” or uniquness of their business…Unique content is King to Google - as without this creative input…well…it Blah-Blah-Blah…

Never forget that special funtion of hyper-local content is that there is so much to embrace - We only have 2000 cities to investigate on DiscoverOurTown, but that investigative task is HUGE…as we take time to interview the local merchant and let consumers know the special qualities - creative outlets of that business….The power of unique content is what consumers really want!

]]> Comment on MAPLight Love by Robert Hammond http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/01/29/maplight-love/#comment-351 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:11:26 +0000 http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/01/29/maplight-love/#comment-351 Thanks for the great Google mapping tool. We've used to the tool to create a map of missionaries that our church supports (see LHBaptist.com/missions/) Thanks for the great Google mapping tool. We’ve used to the tool to create a map of missionaries that our church supports (see LHBaptist.com/missions/)

]]> Comment on New in Atlas: Reader Comments on Maps by Innovation in College Media » Blog Archive » Atlas updated: now with UCG http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/01/12/new-in-atlas-reader-comments-on-maps/#comment-197 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:40:37 +0000 http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2007/01/12/new-in-atlas-reader-comments-on-maps/#comment-197 [...] To see how this might work, check out this map by Gregory Corte at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Read more about the new features at the Atlas blog. [...] […] To see how this might work, check out this map by Gregory Corte at the Cincinnati Enquirer. Read more about the new features at the Atlas blog. […]

]]> Comment on When Public Records Become Really Public by Derek Willis http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2006/12/19/when-public-records-become-really-public/#comment-117 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:25:01 +0000 http://faneuilmedia.com/blog/2006/12/19/when-public-records-become-really-public/#comment-117 Someone may have, yes, but no one had up until this point. And the federal and state/local differences are tremendous - weakening federal FOIA laws requires convincing a couple of hundred congressmen or senators that it's the right thing to do, and there are active lobbies that watch these activities closely in Congress. Many states, to say nothing of localities, have real defenders of public records that can combat a stealthy drive by a small group of powerful people or to counter a campaign based on an emotional appeal, as in the Earnhardt case. In a best-case scenario, I totally agree with you. But the reality is that once records are sealed it can be extremely difficult to get them reopened, and while news organizations should make the case of openness whenever they can, they should also be mindful of doing things that have little impact except to stir up opposition. Someone may have, yes, but no one had up until this point. And the federal and state/local differences are tremendous - weakening federal FOIA laws requires convincing a couple of hundred congressmen or senators that it’s the right thing to do, and there are active lobbies that watch these activities closely in Congress.

Many states, to say nothing of localities, have real defenders of public records that can combat a stealthy drive by a small group of powerful people or to counter a campaign based on an emotional appeal, as in the Earnhardt case.

In a best-case scenario, I totally agree with you. But the reality is that once records are sealed it can be extremely difficult to get them reopened, and while news organizations should make the case of openness whenever they can, they should also be mindful of doing things that have little impact except to stir up opposition.

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