First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of their communities’ histories and all other media put together, yet they hoard it behind a paywall that produces pathetic revenues and keeps people in the communities from using it — as they would all the time — as part of their current lives. The revenues would go up with targeted search and keyword-specific ads on those pages, I’m absolutely convinced. But an equally important result would be to strengthen local ties.
Oh, you mean something like this?
- BROWSE / IN TIMELINE
- « Creating a Search Engine
- » Dog Database
- BROWSE / IN LATimes Newspapers
- « Twittering the Earthquake
- » Dog Database
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