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Post: Hyper-Local Hero - Rob Curley - Online News Leader

A great article on one of the more inspiring "online news" developers in the 
country - Hyper-Local Hero:


But since teaching himself to build Web sites 10 years ago, he appears to have 
figured out what most newspapers haven't: how to do the Internet right. He 
calls it "hyperlocal" multimedia journalism, and his news and entertainment 
sites are sucking in audiences, advertisers, and revenue; they're racking up 
national and international awards; and, most important, they've begun 
delivering profits. The sites Curley and his team build grow out of an uncanny 
feel for what matters to customers and an ability to translate that knowledge 
into imaginative, indispensable tools that forge a connection and habit with 
readers--just as newspapers once did. But his sites allow readers to do far 
more than they can with print: Users can compare historical home prices, street 
by street or neighborhood by neighborhood; receive a text alert about a Little 
League rainout, the weather, or the fishing report; click on a map to assess 
local hurricane damage; chat with the subject of a story or its rep
 orter; check out a weekly high-school sports roundup and daily news "vodcast" 
(short for video on demand).

Check out Rob Curley's blog. I saw him present once at a conference at UC 
Berkeley when he was still in Kansas. He's not in Kansas anymore, but his work 
continues.

Steven Clift
http://e-democracy.org
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