Lowdown on Loudoun: Hyper-Local For Upper Crusts

From Online Media Daily - LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA IS PROBABLY best-known in the Internet world as the home of AOL. As of Monday, it is also the home of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive's "experiment" in hyper-local Web publishing--LoudounExtra.com.

Caroline Little, WPNI CEO and publisher, said that other DC communities for potential future hyper-local sites have yet to be determined, but that Loudoun was "a good place to start," since "it's a county with a real local identity" and "very fast-growing." ...

One of the print paper's long-time advertisers, DC-area retailer Long Windows, has come on board as the launch sponsor for LoudounExtra.com. The window replacement company has "bought out most of the site for several months," noted Little. | Read full article