Boston Web site adds more local pages, still none in Boston itself

Word out of boston.com is that they've opened up six more Your Town sites, in Hingham, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Norwell and Scituate. Still not a single "Your Neighborhood" site.

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Submitted by adamg on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 8:57am.

But why compete with Universal Hub?

Boston.com is getting a bit techno-trendy -- all these town sites have twitter accounts: @MedfordUpdate, @HinghamUpdate, etc.

anon (not verified) | Mon, 06/01/2009 - 9:20am

The problem with things like

The problem with things like Twitter updates and super local pages is that you have to maintain a steady stream. In a local environment it is ok to have a Newspaper once a week, new blogs a few times a week, a new website change daily, but when it comes to Twitter there is an expectation of new stuff a few times a day. Its not uncommon for people to refer to yesterdays Tweets as "old". Heck its not uncommon for people to say a Tweet is outdated because it crossed the one hour threshold.

ShadyMilkMan | Mon, 06/01/2009 - 9:53am

Screw it. I come to UH for

Screw it. I come to UH for my local updates. I go to Boston.com for major news stories. It's the way it's been for years now and honestly, it's worked great for me. I'm thinking they already realize they've lost the hyper local battle for Boston with great community newspapers already existing and lots (literally tons) of Boston bloggers filling in the gap.

Adam Pieniazek (not verified) | Mon, 06/01/2009 - 12:27pm

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