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Welcome to Davis, Calif.: Six lessons from the world’s best local wiki

Ah, Davis: home of 60,000 people, 30,000 students, 188 sunny days a year, a 16 percent bike commute mode share and the busiest local wiki in the world.
If I were Omaha World-Herald Publisher Terry Kroeger, I’d be booking my post-holiday flight immediately.
As Gina reported here last week, Omaha’s employee-owned metro daily just bought WikiCity, an [...]

16 comments | Posted by Michael Andersen | November 6, 2009 | 9:54 am

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Omaha World-Herald, rethinking its product, buys hyperlocal WikiCity

The Omaha World-Herald Co. announced this week that it has purchased WikiCity, a hyperlocal site with local content for just more than 22,000 U.S. communities that I wrote about here in August.
WikiCity, which started in late 2008 and launched publicly this summer, is a bit like CitySearch with its telephone-book-like listings of restaurants and [...]

7 comments | Posted by Gina Chen | October 29, 2009 | 11:00 am

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