Honolulu Civil Beat: Where’s the Marketplace?

In my community, I'd have great local news reporting, great community discussion -- and great Yelp-like functionality, great Open Table-like functionality, great-Angie's List like-functionality, hey, great eBay-like functionality (aka The New Classifieds!). Maybe, that's a wrinkle up Civic ...

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The Quote

"....that ignores why people pay for the Wall Street Journal, which is not just that 'it has value,' but that it has scarce value that helps people make money now. I don't recall similar information being covered in the normal civic square. In the meantime, I'm sure there are plenty of local ...

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Honolulu Merger Offers Peer News Opening

If Peer News (the name seems problematic from here on the Mainland), can execute at a high level, it can move into a vacuum -- and make the case for a homegrown news product.

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Hawaii 5.0?: Pierre Omidyar’s Island of New Journalism

"Our goal is to create the new civic square," he told Pacific Business News. It's a for-profit model, a healthy alternative to the proliferation of non-profits. What should make the initiative watchable (and of course visitable by any number of new journalism watchers!) is that combo of deep ...

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