Introducing 9Neighbors
For the past few months, Theo and I have had our heads down, working on a new project we call 9Neighbors. Over the last week, we’ve begun to open it to the public.
9Neighbors is a local news aggregation and filtering tool for five Boston towns. We’re very excited about it. We think it’s an excellent […]
What’s the Significance of Place?
How do you answer that question? It’s an academic discipline, not the subject of a blog post.
My answer, when somebody posed the question last week, was that the significance of place is highly variable — that it means different things to different people and different communities. But that’s not an answer, it’s a tautology.
This is […]
Networks Are In, Portals Are Out
The contrarian in me surfaced last week when I read Rich Gordon’s advice to, “Build a network, not a destination.”
Rich is absolutely right, but the current network-building mania among news sites reminds me of the late-90s portal-building mania.
“Portal” is that all-encompassing term used to describe news sites’ efforts to build out verticals and create functions […]
