Metblogs

Metroblogging was an online local media project founded by Jason DeFillippo and Sean Bonner. Starting in Los Angeles in November 2003, at it’s height the project included 57 city-specific blogs around the world, with close to 700 contributors. Later shortened to Metblogs, the project was one of the foundational efforts of early “hyperlocal” and citizen journalism and was often cited in discussions about national media vs local reporting. A number of major news events were documented first hand by local bloggers on Metblogs sites, which you can read more about on Wikipedia.