http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/10/15/195/building-community-is-hard/ Inside Online Media Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:25:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/10/15/195/building-community-is-hard/#comment-62623 Greg Cohn Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:43:37 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/10/15/195/building-community-is-hard/#comment-62623 Building citizen journalism is hard - it's hard without an audience to start with (as I learned in helping build one from the ground up at NewWest.Net), but it's equally hard with a big audience that's in broadcast, rather than community mode. As an example, Digg has been more successful than Netscape's voting and USAToday's comments. Building citizen journalism is hard - it’s hard without an audience to start with (as I learned in helping build one from the ground up at NewWest.Net), but it’s equally hard with a big audience that’s in broadcast, rather than community mode. As an example, Digg has been more successful than Netscape’s voting and USAToday’s comments.

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