Monday, January 15, 2007

Worried about AmericanTowns.com

This worries me. We're late filling this space; it could be too late before long.

“We’d like people to hear sirens or see traffic jams and go to WestportNow to see what happened,” Mr. Joseloff said. “Before this, there was a lot that happened in Westport that didn’t see the light of day.”

The site is a more of a news organization than most town-specific sites in that it employs a full-time professional journalist, Jennifer Connic, who used to cover Westport as a newspaper reporter for The Hour of Norwalk. In addition to writing for the Web site and taking photographs, she edits articles and photos contributed by readers.

Alongside features about the best trick-or-treating neighborhoods, the site offers breaking news about accidents, power failures and police reports shortly after they happen, and items about home and building teardowns before they happen.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous3:28 PM

    Howard,

    Just came across this post while doing some follow-up research on American Towns. Thought I would mention that McClatchy (Interactive) does have something close to A.T. in terms of a solution: YourTown , although further development and enhancements seem to have been shelved (for reasons I, as a former developer of the product, never understood).

    YourTown has the potential to take on AmericanTowns and bridge the gap between the '5 house' power-outage and the '5 state' ones. Perhaps it's time McClatchy takes a second look at it?

    - Formerly of Nando Media

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