Everyone involved with any aspect of local blogging has spent much of the last week talking about BackFence, since the chaos going on behind close doors over there seems to have spilled out into the street. Quick background - The company was founded in 2005 and raised a VC round of $3 million with just […]

Take your local media back with Metroblogging and Helio! Starting today Metroblogging can be found on all Helio mobile devices. On any Helio phone under the “Surf Helio” option you will now find Metroblogging along with the likes of The Onion, Slate, Yahoo! and Maxim. Helio is clearly focused on providing quality […]

Last week I pointed to a post by a blogger in Bangalore called Jace called “What is Metroblogging?” He spent some serious time looking at (at least a few of) our sites and wrote a pretty detailed review of what he thinks we’re doing right, what we’re doing wrong, and how we could improve on […]

Another Press Release for this week…
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Metroblogging is pleased to announce its partnership with Federated Media Publishing, a company that connects a select group of author-driven websites to world class progressive marketers. Now handling advertising across this expansive network of local sites, this partnership with Federated Media is sure to excite marketers who are trying to […]

Here’s the release we’re sending out shortly…
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For Immediate Release
METROBLOGGING ANNOUNCES ALL-CITIES GLOBAL FEED
Visit the World’s Great Cities via RSS
Today the global blog network Metroblogging is releasing a single RSS feed that contains recent posts from the company’s entire network of 45 cities worldwide.
This comprehensive feed provides a simple way for readers to view all of […]

Back in January Jason announced that he was leaving Technorati to focus on Metroblogging and I said I’d be following shortly. Basically we had way too much Metblogs work to do and not enough time to do it. The past month has been filled with that and we’re excited to show off the first chunk […]