Andy Newman is the editor of the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill version of “The Local,� a newly minted hyper-local blogging experiment by The New York Times. “I’m about as newbie as you get,� he admitted when asked about previous blogging experience. He’s so new, in fact, that he spent the bet...

If the entire media industry is a river that is slowly but persistently moving toward the Internet, then one could picture Joshua Karp as a canoeist paddling against the current, trying to take the online realm and solidify it into print. I first heard of his new business venture, The Printed Blog, ...

Nashville is talking, but it never used to. Not even a year ago Tennessee’s capital city was just reading and watching, maybe blogging a little bit— but no talking, no commenting, and definitely no tweeting. For those not privy to the slang, a “tweet� is a single 140-character message sent v...

We all know that real estate markets are local in terms of prices and market conditions. But they're more than just that. Real estate markets are hyper-local. You can go just one neighborhood (or even street) over and find a totally different set of market conditions. For example...If you were to lo...

Mary McKnight wrote an article last Friday called Real Estate Blogs are Stores, Not Websites – So Blog Like You are Selling Houses, Not Writing For Your Local Paper and it made the short list for the Odysseus Medal Sunday.  It is well written and provocative.  Mary McKnight is recognized as one ...