Comments on: Chris Anderson’s “Vanishing Point theory of news”

by: The Internet, and Stuff » Blog Archive » A Disparate Entry

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:00:09 +0000

[…] Ok, I swear this site is not just going to become some self-congratulatory linkfest on my part, but one of my “Media 2.0″ (does putting it in air-quotes make me less of a douchebag?) idols, Terry Heaton, has an interesting post about Chris Anderson’s Vanishing Point Theory of News. While a bit simplistic, it does provide an interesting argument on why Facebook is a possibly a better model of a news source than CNN. Take a look. […]

by: Phoneranger

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:01:55 +0000

Listening to reports of bombings in Iraq or Afghanistan is an unpleasant way to wake up. It’s also disturbing to know that the Federal Budget deficit may undermine our kids future. Or that doctors performing abortions in Florida are getting shot by religious fanatics. Or that the State Senate leader is being bribed. Also that an asteroid could end life on Earth in a blink.

We can’t do anything about any of these things so why bother? If JNJ has a new bandage for scraped knees — now that’s news I can use. Leave it to the guys in Washington and New York to handle the complicated stuff.

If it’s not hyperlocal, it’s just bees in my brain.

by: thedetroitchannel

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:31:34 +0000

glad you’ve made a post using the word “hyperlocal”. i just saw where one reader on another blog asked “what does hyperlocal mean?”

maybe it’s your neighbor’s kid who appears to need his meds adjusted?

anyway, the term i think might be more appropriate than “hyperlocal” going forward is “community” content. while what happens on my block and in my city is important, it’s what’s happening in “my world” that is vital to know. “my world” is certainly a different world than that of my next door neighbors. but, i would venture to say there are other folks in THE world who share “my” world and therefore would be in “my community”.