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I wish every city had something like this (with good content).
by jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
I wish every city had something like this (with good content).
- acangiano 16y agoWhen a comment starts with "I wish" there is usually an opportunity for a startup. A "Citypedia" of sort, where communities could publish local information at <city>.<whatever>pedia.com could become big quickly and be ridiculously useful as well.
- philipn 16y agoThat's what we're trying to do! If you see the message at the top of http://daviswiki.org http://daviswiki.org -- we've just gotten a grant from the Knight Foundation (i.e. Everyblock) to do software development, and we're now trying to fundraise (in the interim) to cover outreach & education efforts (a huge aspect of success). http://localwiki.org http://localwiki.org has more information. It's going to be an entirely non-profit, open-source effort. If you think your community would be a good pilot then you should definitely fill out the pilot recommendation form (and have other people do so as well). We're really looking for places with creative, inspired, amazing people -- and we want to work alongside them to really refine this model for local media!