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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on December 4, 2009 at 1:10PM EST
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Daniel said:
Impressive participation numbers at the six week mark.
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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on November 14, 2009 at 11:05PM EST
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Daniel said:
Valuable tips for starting a news or local information wiki, most importantly that you should put a lot of effort into producing the content. Expert feedback in the comments, too.
Quote: Keep your content open source, no matter what. Don't do it for marketing reasons or out of the kindness of your heart. Do it because it's the only way to guarantee to your users that if you fold, all their hard work won't die with you.
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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on October 13, 2009 at 4:02PM EDT
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Daniel said:
InBerkeley.com is shutting down and Dave Winer runs through the reasons why. Most significantly, they tried to act like a news organization when they were too small to do so.
Quote: I thought we could apply the same approach that worked in bootstrapping weblogs, RSS and podcasting to make local sites work. One or two people start writing about their personal experiences. A small audience develops. Debates, discussions follow. More perspectives. At every step you invite people to participate. You always ask for the people who used to be called the audience to become full participants. That's how the idea scales. As I said, it worked quite well for blogging and related technologies. Instead, what happened at InBerkeley.com is that the people thought we were running a news organization, and they did stories the way reporters do them. That can't possibly work, imho -- for the same reason the news industry is in crisis.
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