B&C writes up Cory and Citizen Rain
Steve Safran October 7th, 2007
Broadcasting & Cable has a writeup on Cory Bergman’s labor of love, the Seattle blog and news aggregator Citizen Rain. B&C’s Michael Malone notes that Cory’s baby:
…showcases the work of 240-plus Seattle bloggers. The site is divided into a dozen categories, and features a “cover story” and four news slots.
The article also takes us through the still-nascent history of local station blog aggregators, starting with the WKRN effort. Malone did find some typical hand-wringing, too:
Some station-business insiders, however, express concerns with featuring outside blog content, and wonder about the logic of posting links to rival stations.
Here’s the logic: The Web is Not TV. And linking to other sites sure seems to be working for Drudge, Google News, The Huffington Post…
2 Comments Add your own
1. Hanson | October 6th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Way to go Cory. And thanks again for spreading the word at my user-generated content class last week. I’ve already posted the link to our Facebook discussion group…
2. John Proffitt | October 7th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
When managers say you can’t/shouldn’t link to competing outlets, that just kills me. It’s enough to make you want to leave the traditional media business altogether.
The future is all about linking, about curating, about sharing. Whoever does the best linking, sharing, pointing out and collecting will win in the media game.
That’s why I visit the blogs (like this one) that I do. The ones I use do the best job of following topics that I find interesting and following them in a way that’s useful to me in one way or another.
So keep on linkin’ folks — none of us can create ALL the media in the world.
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