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What can you do with one million people?
You can march on Washington. You can populate Montana. You can celebrate the New Year. Or, you could build the largest news community on the Web. Today, Topix welcomed the one millionth participant to our forums. In the 15 months...

SXSW Talk: When Communities Attack
I attended SXSW last year, and really enjoyed both the event, not only for the "official" content, but also for the enthusiasm of the crowd, and the fact that the folks who went seemed to go of their own volition...

Topix shows you "How To" at BlogHer
Topix will be exhibiting at the BlogHer Business Conference in New York this week. If you’ll be at the show, do stop by the booth—we’re full of helpful “How To” advice. How to drive traffic to your blog by adding...

Reinventing Topix: Topix.Com(munity)
Today Topix is launching a new platform for citizen journalism on the web. We started in 2004 by automatically aggregating the news and localizing it by ZIP code. But based on the rapid growth we've seen in the past...

500 Editors and Counting
When we launched last week, we were curious about how our new site would perform. What kinds of folks would sign up to be editors? Would they be clustered on the coasts? Why would they want to participate? What weve...

What's Missing from Your Local News?
When we were trying to figure out what we needed to do to make Topix better, we went out and talked to a lot of people. I was personally surprised at how much people cared about the news about where...

Topix Grows 81%, According to Hitwise
Hitwise just came out with its U.S. News and Media Report (registration required for full report), which highlights some interesting trends in online media -- from the rise of video to the importance of Google and aggregators as upstream traffic...

Inviting Readers to the Party: Expanding the Definition of News
Today, Rich was on KQED-FM's "Forum with Michael Krasny", discussing innovations in local news with fellow guests Michael Maness from Gannett and Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media. They have an interesting exchange. Dan comments that innovations...

Topix Cracks the Top 20 & Gets a New Suit
For the first time, Topix hit the top 20 most visited news and info sites, according to Hitwise May 2007 data. I'm especially happy about this, since the other big news is that Rich is stepping up to manage from...

Headline News: Topix on CNN.com
Were excited to officially announce (drumroll, please) that CNN.coms local news headlines are now powered by Topix. To see this in action, just swing by their homepage and scroll down to the Local News widget and input your ZIP. Voila!...

Topix in the News
The last few weeks have been busy here at Topix, and we're delighted to report on some new successes: Today, it was announced that Topix was selected by AlwaysOn for their 2007 AO100 list of the hottest private companies. CEO...

Topix on myAOL and iPhone
Today, myAOL launched their local news module, powered by Topix. You can type in your ZIP code and get news headlines for your town, and consistent with our mission to create discussions across the country, there are also links to...

Topix Events Around the Bay
A few weeks ago, Topix CEO Chris Tolles participated on the New News panel at AlwaysOn. In case you missed it, the video is available online for your viewing pleasure. And here's another interview from AlwaysOn, with Andy Plesser: Click...

Enemy of the State
According to TalkZimbabwe.com, Topix has achieved a new noteriety - being officially and secretly blacklisted by the governement of Zimbabwe, as part of an act, signed into law called the Interception of Communications Act. From their source: "Hostile websites have...

Make Topix a Top Pick at SXSW
Were always looking for opportunities to tell more people about what we're doing here, and you can help, by voting to put Topix on the agenda for SXSW South by Southwest, one of the best events around to interact...