This video is great. So my startup is a social news site for Chicago over at WindyCitizen.com I worked on this thing for 8 months with interns, recruited writ

This video is great. So my startup is a social news site for Chicago over at WindyCitizen.com I worked on this thing for 8 months with interns, recruited writers with fancy titles etc. And traffic went nowhere. Around the New Year, I decided to "fire" most of my volunteer "editors" and resolved to just start posting tons of links myself every morning from 8-noon and adding context to them in the comments. When I had something that was interesting, I'd e-mail it to local bloggers and invite them to add their thoughts. Five months later we're picking up about 20 new members a day and every blogger and professional web editor in Chicago is posting stories and commenting on them. I don't know that we've hit critical mass just yet, but we're getting awfully close. The key was for me to just give up trying to be cool and to start doing something simple and easy to join in on. People saw that I was posting up links every morning and they started joining in. Good submit!