More on the hyperlocalization trend. This article about the company, AmericanTowns, which creates local news websites.
I can envision a day when music venues are promoted this way. Get your neighbors out to support local bands at local venues. To hell with who some kid blogger in another state thinks is the cool band of the moment.
Anytown, Online - New York Times, 1/14/07: "Across the United States, citizen bloggers and deep-pocketed entrepreneurs are creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites where the public can read and contribute items too small or too fleeting for weekly newspapers. Suburban towns across the greater New York area are joining in, giving residents a new way to avoid traffic snags, find a lost dog or just vent about a local hot-button issue."
music scene
economic development
live music
clubs
creative class
third places
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