'Insider' Information Puts City Blogs on the Map
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Locally focused group "metro" blogs -- compilations of events, reflections, recommendations, news and complaints -- are emerging to put a number of big cities in intimate, street-level relief.
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Blogs and the Web may hurt or change newspapers.
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Google Maps can be a bit of a shutterbug these days.
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Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of business travelers who write blogs have learned that their Web journals are more than online platforms to blow off steam.
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Plus: Bloggers battled by viral storm. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Travel: Benji Lanyado puts Tokyo's army of bloggers through their paces to bring you the ultimate cyber guide to the Japanese capital
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The local search site lets you navigate through cities with businesses paying to show tours of the insides of the buildings.
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For nearly a year I've lived in that relatively new zone called the blogosphere.  I'm now considering moving.  Like many people, I've entertained the idea over the years of writing a book or two; but for now I just enjoy writing an occasional column or story.
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Local bloggers now play a key role in influencing national media. Their blogs have become prime sites to watch as the 2008 presidential campaign gets hot.
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There are dozens of Weblogs that seemingly anyone who is anybody in the technology industry reads regularly. Lisa Hsu's blog isn't one of them.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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On Joshua Eichorn's weblog, there's a new post talking about some of the events covered at their latest PHP London meeting.
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Technorati is making an attempt to organize the growing blogosphere with their new "Topics" feature.
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Blog: A source close to the hire hints that longtime tech writer Newitz, currently a freelancer for Wired's blog network, will be at the helm of a new title from the NYC-based blog network.
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Travel: In the first of Benji Lanyado's monthly city-focused blog roundups, we set our sights on the Chinese capital.
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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(InfoWorld) - Almost three months afterÂ a major overhaul of Ask.com's local search engine, IAC/InterActiveCorp is again moving to improve its offerings in this popular search segment by acquiring Insider Pages, a city guide with hundreds of thousands of user reviews of local businesses. Insider Pages, founded in 2004 and with more than 600,000 merchant reviews and 2 million monthly unique users, will become part of Citysearch, a similar city guide that, like Ask.com, is owned by IAC. Between the two, Citysearch and Insider Pages have more than 1 million reviews as well as listings of local businesses in more than 500 categories and in every U.S. Zip Code, IAC announced Thursday. For now, Insider Pages will continue operating its own site, and Citysearch will incorporate Insider Pages material that it considers complementary to its guide, a Citysearch official said. A similar evaluation process regarding Insider Pages material will take place for Ask.com's AskCity local search engine. In other words, neither Citysearch, which has about 13 million unique users per month, nor AskCity will automatically ingest all of Insider Pages' content, said Dinesh Moorjani, Citysearch's vice president of strategy and corporate development. After its overhaul in December, AskCity gained access to material from a variety of IAC-owned properties, including Citysearch. Local search has become a highly popular search segment for both advertisers and end-users. Typically, local search engines contain maps, offer driving directions, provide business listings and reviews, give traffic information, and display information about events. Advertising revenue in local search is expected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2005 to $13 billion in 2010, according to The Kelsey Group. In July of last year, 63 percent of U.S. Internet users, or about 109 million people at the time, conducted a local search, up 45 percent compared with July 2005, according to comScore Networks. Google led with 29.8 percent of queries, closely followed by Yahoo with 29.2 percent. Ask.com ranked in seventh place with 2.7 percent of queries. IAC didn't disclose the financial details of the Insider Pages acquisition, which has already closed. Â