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more about #thelocal more comments → Fishnets and Cigarettes: If you tell me where the climbing basement is, I'll turn you on to the secret Brooklyn Dumpster pools....... http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/10/dive... more » BadUncle: Does "our bad" appear in the A.P. Stylebook? more » Aaron Altman: In a sense, the Times is flunking spelunking. more » TheMac: For what it's worth, I know the guy writing the FG/CH blog, and he's genuinely about the project, whatever the overall goal of the NYT may be (or the ... more » Jasper Reardon: This isn't a new strategy for the Times, really. For instance, the About.com deal that everyone derided was mostly in order to own About's search metr... more » beppolina1: I am from Maplewood, I am impossibly vain, and I am FIRST BITCHES!!!!! more » marcsiry: As a resident of one of the Oranges (West), I can assure you that although these suburbs may be obscure, a good portion of the residents moved from Ne... more » Tremonius: I read that the LA Times has online revenue exceeding its editorial costs, minus printing. That means if they went strictly online, they'd be profitab... more » oopsidoo: God, these people jsut don't get it. Instead of launching this where there's no real competition, they go after a Googler. How's that Google war been ... more » Shelwood: Wake me when the war moves south. When it gets to Neshanic, I will round up my militia. more » Weegee's bored: Why not Maplewood? They can't well fight over a richer 'burb like Great Neck, where 300 people lost their shirts to Uncle Bernie. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: How soon before Carlos Salim's machine-gun toting narco soldados show up in Mountain View asking for a little face time (monkey style)? more » choptop: Funny, just last night on Real Time with Bill Mahar they were discussing the death of the newspaper, and how bloggers will be temporarily left without... more » -
#journalismism
NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
New New York Times Survival Strategy: Become a Fancy Blog-Software Company
Why has the Gray Lady assigned full-time reporters to communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey? Even a Times editor admits the paper will never make money on microjournalism. But they could market software to bloggers. More » -
#deathofprint
The New York Times Battles a Googler for New Jersey
Why is the Gray Lady building websites for the obscure suburbs of South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn? Perhaps because those are the exact same towns Google executive Tim Armstrong picked for Patch, his local-news startup. More »
