Online News Squared ™

Maggie Mills was an inspiration and the absolute embodiment of a hyperlocal journalist long, long before that became a throw-away label for very local online content. Maggie masterfully practiced her hyperlocal skills for more than half a century in another medium — print — in Squared’s hometown and was one of the inspirations for Squared [...]

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+ Google News has new filtering options at the “cluster” level that let you see blogs or local stories. Here. + Another Google wannabee (started by former Googlers) with an even more ridiculous name — cuil. Here. ( Just don’t accidentally mistype and visit culi.com, a nice little Italian. . . .porn site).  + NotTheLaTimes.com. [...]

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Adrian and crew add two new cities (Charlotte and Philly) to  microlocal data emporium Everyblock. One of the inaugural members of the Adrian Holovaty Cloning Lab at Northwestern ruminates on what might be next, halfway through his incubation period. A couple Mama T cheap shots for good measure. Coming next, toilet paper rationing? And what [...]

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Those picked from 300+ “New Voices” applicants will receive up to $17,000 in funding. New projects include those covering veterans, families of prisoners, immigration and first-person audio diaries of remote Alaskans. Since 2005, The Institute for Interactive Journalism has given funding to 40 community news projects. Press Release |Grants by year

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Mama T’s Baltimore Sun this week launched a new free youth-oriented daily — called “b” — and in addition to a great tagline (“Baltimore’s daily conversation starts here”), the web version of b is taking an interesting, simple aggregation/conversation approach that is worth a look. Says Tim Windsor, VP and GM of interactive for Baltimore [...]

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