Backfence.com goes live today and already it’s looking good. The site covers the local issues we plan to cover in our LocalNews Daily online community. They go beyond and into advertising, yellow pages and the like – areas not on our radar at present. The site is very clean and easy to use.
Stories on Backfence have been posted by local residents. Many say this is the way of local news in the future. Who wants to read a homogenised local paper stuffed in your letterbox as a conduit for advertising when you can have something like this which is more about the news than anything else?
Here is an interview with the founder, Mark Potts which sheds more light on backfence.
Backfence sets a new benchmark in hyper local citizen journalism.