Talk:Metroblogging

message: I just want to add that Bode Media, Inc. is no longer the parent company. According to the website is now says that it's run by Joz Enterprises (jozjozjoz.com) and Bode Media, Inc's website is down. None of it's founders seem to be involved anymore. For all purposes this site/company is in the deadpool.--80.5.114.32 (talk) 01:47, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *Good work, Grant. Dystopos 13:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

message: I've reformatted the list of references. The list needs to be weeded down and connected to the facts in the article itself. Wikipedia is not a link farm and references in the article do not serve the purpose that they might on VfD. The point of a reference is to verify statements made in the article. The proper course is to incorporate encyclopedic information gleaned from these articles into the WP article and remove any "references" that don't provide such information. 
I removed one link to a metroblog discussion of a website mention. I didn't see anything there qualifying as a "reference" Dystopos 16:20, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed all of the references from the bottom of the page.  I have either worked them into the body of the article or deleted them entirely.  There were quite a few that were either broken or pointed to articles that didn't mention Metroblogging.--Grant 07:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I think it's best if I refrain from editing actual content of this page but I'll post things here that might be good for others to include such as the reactions in our Lahore and Karachi blogs to the 2005_Kashmir_earthquake - our coverage and efforts were recently mentioned on CNN. Sean Bonner 06:24, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: News To Add

message: I moved this claim from the article to here for discussion: "40 city-specific blogs around the world, making it the largest location based network" (italicized content moved here). I do not know what "largest location based network" means, nor how to judge whether one is larger than another. I think this claim would need a citation, and probably a definition as well, in order to keep in in the main article.
Here are some things I think might count as (or be confused with) location based networks above: mailing lists, regional web sites, Craigslist (which has regional sites), and Friendster-like sites. --Zippy 16:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original sentence is confusing and so broadly interpretable as to be meaningless. I would imagine the sentence is attempting to describe Metroblogging as the "largest network of location based blogs". I would have no idea if this is correct or not, however, as it would likely depend on how you defined the word "largest". Is that meant in terms of the number of locations that have blogs, the size of the network of bloggers writing for those locations, the size of the community that makes use of the blogs? Glowimperial 17:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Largest location-based network claim

message: Are the bloggers paid? Does anyone earn money? How do the finances work? Right now this entry sounds like an advertisement. Mrwriter 05:40, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Info missing

message: Yeah- I agree, totally reads like an ad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.40.3 (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Does feel like an ad

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