links for 2011-02-10

Obviously it isn’t a realistic option for a small newsroom skint on time and manpower to traipse around all day for ideas that only might pay off. But it did get me thinking that the financial strait-jacket that many poor locals are laced in is slowly hacking at the idea of the ‘roving reporter’, making it difficult to truly capitalise on a connection with the community and to find imaginative content that readers will want to buy week in week out. It made me want to experiment with and revitalise local news in my area.

"The average person isn't interested in the wider area but they are very interested in their immediate locality. If you had a paper for every street, it would sell. You couldn't do that, but you could do it for every town."

I've been thinking about the new Internet bubble for a while: today I saw what, for me, clinched it that the bubble is back. Here, in order, are the six signs that we're in a new net bubble.