Rick Blair | Local Onliner

Jan 28

2010

Examiner.com Nears 30,000 Local Contributors

Examiner.com, the Philip Anschutz-backed site that calls itself “the insider source for everything local,” says it is likely to pass 30,000 active contributors, or “Examiners,” within days, and 85,000 by 2011. The current tally includes 1,234 active contributors in LA, 1,189 active contributors in New York , 921 in Chicago, 901 in San Francisco, 900 …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Verticals

Tags: aggregated content, Examiner.com, Rick Blair

Nov 30

2009

Examiner.com’s Makeover: Deep Focus on Local/Vertical

Does it make any sense to build a national chain of city sites by hiring local editors, one by one? The answer is a resolute “no” according to Examiner.com CEO Rick Blair, who said he’d been there and done that when he was a top exec at AOL Digital City. Blair came on board to …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Misc, Verticals

Tags: AOL Digital City, Examiner.com, Rick Blair

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