
We are looking for a rock star jack-of-all trades to be our office manager and a key culture-driver at Outside.in...

Mark Josephson, our CEO, recently participated in a panel and interview on MediaBistro.com about building hyperlocal businesses and communities. The panel largely agreed that the explosion of content is a boon for the local industry and an enormous revenue opportunity for media companies...

It feels like almost every week I read about a new media venture sprouting up thanks to grant money from xyz foundation or donors. NPR recently received a $3MM grant from the Corporation for Publication Broadcasting and the Knight Foundation to fund bloggers and curators in 12 cities...

We are looking for a dynamic individual to lead our Product Development efforts. He or she will help make sure our collective vision for a new platform for local media is executed flawlessly...

My colleague Jared provided a great commentary on this blog after the recent New Business Models for News Conference and HyperCamp at CUNY. Thought I’d add a few more thoughts from the revenue angle. ...

By the end of yesterday’s New Business Models for News Conference at CUNY’s J-School, one thing was overwhelmingly clear: Bloggers want to get their content on major media sites and major media sites want this content. Ye...

The scheduled maintenance we tweeted about tonight is still under way. Please be patient while we improve your neighborhood news. We’ll be able to tell you what’s going on about your door again soon. Check this post our our Twitter account for updates. up...

Do you love talking to bloggers? In fact, are some of your friends bloggers and do you correspond with them on Twitter all day? Do you find yourself thinking hard about bloggers’ place in journalism and society and what their successful business models might look like? ...

Thanks for your patience last night while we made some important upgrades. The site has been up and running, rather snappily, since late last night. You may resume enjoying the news around you.

Shiny Engine! by Terrence Tak-Shing Tam on Flickr Until last week, the software architecture powering our core site at outside.in was a standard Ruby on Rails application stack sitting on top of a set of PostgreSQL databases, with various aggressive caching strategies in play on the front end...

Last Monday night around 7 p.m. we quietly launched a brand-new new site at Outside.in. The new version of our site will help you you find out what’s happening wherever you are. ...

Hello bloggers! We’ve consolidated our individual blogger HQs into one destination site since we see a connection between all hyperlocal bloggers, regardless of the town, city, or places you write about. ...

Come on down to the Clark Street Ale House this Friday, October 23, at 6pm for drinks with your fellow local bloggers...

Last week I was asked to give a brief overview of Outside.in at the New York City Investment Fund annual meeting.Those of you who know me know I love to talk about our business. But, this time, I only had two minutes...














