Tuesday, March 2, 2010

City and Press

Isn't this interesting? The Baltimore City and Press, a beautifully designed web site of Baltimore news.. developed in Canada!
Also on Twitter.
No ads... what do you suppose their revenue model is?

2 comments:

BaltimoreGal said...

What the heck is it? So bizarre.

bdshayne said...

It's an automated news aggregation site that pulls articles from local news sites. It is not unlike Google News (http://news.google.com), though a bit more subtle about it's sources.

My guess is that they are new and willing to take a loss to get readers until they eventually add advertising, especially since the creation of a site like theirs requires little overhead (a web server and some basic programming skills).