Thursday, December 01, 2011

It’s been about a month since my last post, so I’ll do several over the next week to make up for it.

I wanted to note that though I originally thought I was going to create a more interactive site for Oakland North first, I’m going to go with Richmond Confidential. Let’s explain my rationale …

At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, we run three hyperlocal news websites: Mission Local, Oakland North and Richmond Confidential. Mission Local has a ton of traffic and content, but for my first project there are just too many content streams I would have to consider. Richmond Confidential has the smallest amount of traffic and content, since it is one of the newest sites. Oakland North seemed like a good middle ground to create/tweak my mobile site with.

Then, there was the roadblock.

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