October 18, 2003
Connected LA
I don’t normally read the LA Times, due to the few remains of East Coast snobbery circulating in my blood. However, October 16ths Calendar sections featured an article that caught my attention. “Desperately Seeking Connection” addressed the success of LA based e-communities in a city filled with transplants.
Unfortunately the online version of the article is fee based. If you’re interested in joining, you should go to Latimes.com and have at it. For the rest of you, I’ve listed the links mentioned in the article for your browsing pleasure (see extended entry). If you have an extra few hours to kill, lord knows how, check them out.
What is the best news about the article? Ah, the fact that “interactive media” is now mainstream media in the “City of Angels".
www.craigslist.org
www.upcoming.org
www.lapeopleconneciton.com
www.lablogs.com
www.friendster.com
www.searchforsanity.com
www.tonypierce.com
www.talkingpointsmemo.com
www.dailycandy.com
www.poynter.org/medianews
www.kausfiles.com
www.volokh.com
www.match.com
www.laobserved.com
www.calendarlive.com/connected
Comments
friendster is perptually in conversations, goodness knows why. the concept itself is interesting but they just dont do anything with it.
craigslist is mucho fun - somewhere between slashdot and ebay, i guess. its how i met my roommate and one of the few 'outside school' friends i have.
match.com is, well, match.com.
maybe if i have time ill look into the others.
but the listing of those 3 dont particularly surprise me or generate big interest as far as 'cyber' communities go. but then maybe im too engrained in thsi stuff to see it from a 'normals' point of view.
Posted by: tripp at October 18, 2003 05:15 PM
