http://blog.topix.net/ News and information about Topix. en-us tolles@topix.net 2009-06-24T14:07:53-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000236.html Peter Kafka of AllthingsD, got Mark Josephson, CEO of Outside.in to project what the "online newspaper for tomorrow" might look like. Mark posited that with 40MM monthly pageviews, and $560k of revenue (half is which is from a network of... 236@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-06-24T14:07:53-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000235.html You know what the Internet is good for? Shopping. Researching the best deal. Sleuthing quality through reviews. And shopping. And I'm not talking about e-commerce (although I'm as big a fan of Zappos as anyone). I'm talking about finding out... 235@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-06-10T12:26:21-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000234.html Here at Topix, we receive a lot of press releases. Since we post our news by aggregation or volunteer editors, these releases usually end up in the circular file. But this press release caught my eye today, when it came... 234@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-05-29T14:14:43-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000233.html Many thanks to the Topix community and CNET Webware editors for voting Topix a Webware 100 Winner in the Location-Based Services category. The 2009 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading... 233@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-05-18T13:18:10-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000232.html Virginia Heffernan's article Comment is King in yesterday's Sunday NY Times magazine was an insightful piece around the role of commentary on news sites like the Washington Post, Salte and others -- although perhaps more insightful than she intended.. For... 232@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-27T13:33:04-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000231.html In March of 2005, we received investment from the three largest newspaper companies in the US, Gannett, Tribune and Knight Ridder. Flash forward four years: In March 2009, we edged out USA TODAY to become their #1 media property at... 231@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-21T07:34:53-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000230.html Mark Dienger, roving reporter for the LAist interviewed my at the Web 2.0 show, and I think he teased out a pretty good overview of Topix, the opportunity for local content and advertising as well as my take on LA... 230@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-10T16:26:42-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000229.html Lots of discussion around the fate of the news business -- for us, connecting our local audiences to business wanting to reach them seems to be a growing part of our revenues, and I'm on the road talking about that... 229@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-04-09T13:33:21-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000228.html After I moderated my panel of user generated content yesterday, I popped into the talk Steven Berlin Johnson gave on the Ecosystem of News , then was nearly bluedgeoned on twitter by the number of people urging the internet to... 228@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-03-14T12:00:24-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000227.html I am going to be moderating a panel at SXSW Interactive this year, User Generated Content: State of the Union - thanks to the invitation of Dean McCall, the founder of IdeaGin, and it would be great to see... 227@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-03-10T17:34:25-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000226.html The IAA put on a breakfast on conversational marketing, which was well attended by folks from all parts of the advertisign ecosystem, brands, agencies and publishers. I thought it was a pretty good example of people speaking for their constituencies... 226@http://blog.topix.net/ 2009-02-26T13:11:37-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000225.html The folks at Businessweek were interested in a fostering a discussion around the death of print newspapers in light of the Christian Science Monitor's decision to discontinue their daily print edition (not to mention the health of the newspaper business... 225@http://blog.topix.net/ 2008-12-31T17:43:22-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000224.html Maybe it's all going to work out OK afterall I've written before about PubCon, and why its different than most of the trade shows I speak at or attend. Small businesses and site owners making there way, and folks... 224@http://blog.topix.net/ 2008-11-13T16:41:13-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000216.html Every day we try to come up with new and innovative ways to make your experience on Topix better and more engaging. With that in mind, we're happy to announce our new "local maps" feature. Now, on every local news... 216@http://blog.topix.net/ 2008-10-02T10:00:00-08:00 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000217.html Special thanks to the folks at the Web Marketing Association for awarding us a 2008 WebAward in the News category. Topix garnered the award after being evaluated by a panel of three expert judges on design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity,... 217@http://blog.topix.net/ 2008-09-30T16:42:21-08:00