New Orleans For some time I had been getting a fairly regular email from something in New Orleans called The Lens. It was something like a web newspaper without being on paper and normally being slim pickings of just a couple of stories. They seemed to have some stories worth a look on the Orleans …
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Local Community News: AOL’s Patch
New Orleans I read the recent story in the Times about AOL’s $50M investment and grand hopes for Patch.com, a so-called hyper-local news source with wild interest. In these days of regular newspaper and TV news cutbacks what a great idea, especially for underserved communities: real community news! The “patch model” seems to be to …