Good morning people on my Media Hackers list!
I love this weather — kind of a chill in the air, refreshing, and the rain keeps the drunks on my West Village street relatively quiet at night. This west coast transplant is still learning to adjust to the norms of east coast living. 🙂
I’m thinking about the format for this Thursday’s meetup. Obviously sometime in the next day or so I have to make up my mind. If you have any thoughts, I’m posting this email on the Unberkeley blog. Comments are welcome.
In the meantime, my podcast-partner Jay Rosen was sick yesterday so I called on Jonathan Glick to fill in. Jon is CEO of Tlists and a regular at the Thurs eve meetups. It’s 45-minutes and was recorded at our excellent radio studio at 20 Cooper Sq with the expert engineering of Adrian Mihai. I think it’s worth a listen.
http://rebootnews.com/2010/03/22/rebooting-the-news-45/
As a recent Manhattan transplant, I’m interested in knowing where you can and can’t get high speed Internet. My mother, who lives in Queens, has great connectivity, with Verizon FIOS. At least 20 megabits in both directions. I honestly thought they’d have Manhattan covered, and while FIOS is still the exception not the rule, it’s not quite as bad as I thought. Turns out you *can* get FIOS, if you choose the right neighborhood. Just what those are, we’re still figuring out.
http://scripting.com/stories/2010/03/22/doYouHaveFiosInManhattan.html
Yesterday I posted a question on Scripting News asking for any clues. I got quite a few!
One more thing and then I have to go to a breakfast meeting — Why is there no aggregator for NYC blogs? It should be easy for a newbie like myself to get acquainted with the blogging leaders in the largest city in the US. I put an aggregator together for the East Village, and could easily do one for the city as a whole, if we had a good list of blogs in the city. Anyone know of such a list?
Comments, questions, suggestions, essays, pointers, bricks, pies …
UNBERKELEY 
Posted by Matt Terenzio on March 23, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Listening to the show now. Sounding good. I don’t want the meetups to end up being product pitches, but I do want to talk about what tools (commercial or not) can and should be used for rebooting the news and how we can get it going in practical terms.
Maybe use the EV project to experiment with some new ideas. Curious if the project is limited to only using NYT sanctioned software or is the door wide open?
Posted by Chris Anderson on March 24, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hi Dave,
Sorry to not be able to make the Meetup this week, but I’ll weigh in on the blog instead. It’s an interesting question about why there isn’t a general directory of NYC blogsl I can only guess it has something to do with the sheer size of the city.
Now, there *is*: http://www.nycbloggers.com/
Which has got a pretty cool shtick — city blogs set up along the subway line- but it doesn’t do anything to aggregate the blogs, and I’m honestly not certain how up to date the list is. I honestly think the way to do this successfully would be for leaders in each organic neighborhood to do what you did and set up an aggregator or river. And then you can go ahead and “aggregate the aggregators.”
Why hasn’t this been done? Could be a lot of reasons. It’s exhausting, for one, and not a lot of people here have a ton of time. And the people who might do this would rather be blogging than collecting blog feeds ;-). What do other people think?
chris