Comment 17788

By terminal point (anonymous) | Posted January 29, 2008 at 10:11:45

I just happened on this in the course of pruning my RSS feeds and thought it interesting enough to forward.

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When the Spec's Poverty Project was announced in late October 2005, it was to be a three-year commitment. Less than two years later, the associated blog had gone cold:

poverty.thespec.com/2007/09/life-money-and-.html


The reason, unannounced on the Poverty Project blog:

www.thespec.com/article/249095

"It's been really exciting, a riot," says Bill Dunphy, formerly our poverty writer but now seconded for a year as WEB U program manager. "Advertising and marketing people are learning about a world that is brand new to many of them," he says, adding the Internet is not only changing our lives but "a lot of it is enabling us to create new communities."

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As an aside, two of the paper's three innovation precedents cited by editor-in-chief David Estok in the above article concern syndicated content: QuickWire, a software program that sorts wire stories (importer) and CanWest Editorial Services, which produces and sells specialized content (exporter). Launched in 1992 and 1996 respectively, both help papers pad page counts while offsetting the cost of local coverage.

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