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|| SportsShooter.com: Member Message Board Start your own newspaper! It's EASY. A word from WEB 2.0 Kirk Mastin, Photographer Coeur D'Alene | ID | USA | Posted: 4:22 PM on 05.14.08 ->> "Designed for small towns and communities, It's The Paperboy can have your paper online and operating in less than a week. Each license comes complete with a customized look and feel for each community, support, a manual on how to generate publicity for the paper, who key contacts are in your town, show you how to generate local news for your paper from other online sources, set up your ‘subscriptions’ via email and includes all emailing technology." http://www.itsthepaperboy.com/ Well, I honestly didn't see this coming, but it does make sense. As the newspaper in Orting, WA shut it's doors last March, a free online newspaper opened for business (http://www.ortingnews.com), powered by... you guessed it... 'Its the Paper Boy.' The Seattle Times ran a piece on it (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/jerrylarge/2004399969_jdl08.html), praising the community for taking on the job of news gathering, but ultimately labeled the new citizen based web paper as 'not being journalism.' However by its third week of existence (in a very small community) Orting's new Web Paper attracted 14,000 subscribers. Not too shabby, eh? I personally, think the new site is a s good if not better than many online newspapers (small to mid sized markets only) and I truly believe that this could be the future. Free news made, from free content provided by citizens, hosted by a dead simple to use turnkey web newspaper system like 'Its the Paper Boy.' -Kirk Mastin  This post is:  Informative (2) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jeff Brehm, Photographer, Photo Editor Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 5:19 PM on 05.14.08 ->> The ad in the first link says "No geeks needed." And they call themselves newspapers ....  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (2) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Svein Ove Ekornesvaag, Photographer Aalesund | Møre og Romsdal | Norway | Posted: 5:32 PM on 05.14.08 ->> Making a newspaperlike website is actually quite easy. It's to fill it up with something worth reading thats the problem.  This post is:  Informative (1) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Dave Amorde, Photographer Lake Forest | CA | USA | Posted: 2:08 PM on 05.15.08 ->> For the geeks in the crowd, check out DotNetNuke (simple Google search) and learn just how easy it is to "throw together" a customized content portal.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Thad Allender, Photographer Lawrence | KS | USA | Posted: 3:53 PM on 05.15.08 ->> Or even better, there is http://www.wordpress.org It was officially made for blogging purposes, but the designs can be easily modified to produce news/magazine/portfolio websites. Here's a few templates that I've made specifically for this exact purpose: http://www.graphpaperpress.com  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jeff Brehm, Photographer, Photo Editor Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 4:15 PM on 05.15.08 ->> Svein hit the nail on the head. It's precisely the problem that most newspapers have today, especially Gannett papers -- crap may fill a page, but no one wants to read it.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Brian Light, Photographer Pennsville | NJ | USA | Posted: 9:44 AM on 05.16.08 ->> My biggest issue with this is that I will no longer have the proper size paper to wrap fish in like I have today. ;) Content is easy, content worth reading is a whole didn't thing. But with all the cuts across the industry, commercial news is taking steps towards being on an equal playing field with these newspaper like websites which is a sad thing.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Jason Jump, Photographer Humble | TX | USA | Posted: 12:58 PM on 05.17.08 ->> I have written some stuff for an online newspaper that just started this year in San Marcos. Not sure what they were/are using for their site, but online is growing and growing. Newstreamz.com is their website.  This post is:  Informative (0) | Funny (0) | Huh? (0) | Off Topic (0) | Inappropriate (0) |   Definitions Add your comments... If you'd like to add your comments to this thread, use this form. You need to be an active (paying) member of SportsShooter.com in order to post messages to the system. NOTE: If you would like to report a problem you've found within the SportsShooter.com website, please let us know via the 'Contact Us' form, which alerts us immediately. It is not guaranteed that a member of the staff will see your message board post. Thread Title: Start your own newspaper! It's EASY. A word from WEB 2.0 Thread Started By: Kirk Mastin Message: Member Login: Password: || Sponsor Special Deals SB-900 TTL AF Shoe Mount Speedlight Available from: Samy's Camera | Price: $499.95 Notes: The SB-900 i-TTL Speedlight leads the Nikon Creative Lighting System delivering the portability, power and versatility to support any photographer's creative lighting imagination. 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