Hespos: Local Blogging

Tom Hespos makes a good case for using blogs to cover local news, especially for underserved communities. Three major challenges are presented:

• Content tracking (finding what's important locally)
• Relevance tools (finding locally relevant stuff globally)
• An advertising model (getting local advertisers paid)

By the end of the summer, I think I'll have prototype solutions to the first two.

Memo to self: lock the term "underserved communities" into the talking points