The Hon. Julius Genachowski Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Dear Chairman Genachowski: October 3, 2011 The undersigned organizations are innovative local online news organizations serving communities across the country. We are new, start-up enterprises, and we are part of a growing movement of local online sites dedicated to news, information and community. As the legacy media industry has undergone increasing strain in engaging in local community and investigative reporting, our enterprises have stepped up to...

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As of today The Sacramento Press has an official mobile site. The great thing about this mobile site is that it can be found at the same location as our regular site, it's way more readable on your average smartphone. Our great development team optimized most of the pages on our site for the mobile browsing experience and those pages include: Sign-up Log in Front Page and Tag Pages User Profiles Search A screen capture of the new mobile front page of The Sacramento Press. (Image by: Joel Rosenberg) API or Application Programming Interface is a way for someone to interact with our site...

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A couple of days ago, something noteworthy happened on The Sacramento Press: We passed 10,000 articles on the site. These are all original works, and they are all local news and information about Sacramento. Some are of no real consequence. Some are even factually incorrect. But they are written by more than 1,000 different people with unique and valuable perspectives on our region (some professional, most amateur). Not only that, many of these stories are of major civic importance. All one has to do is visit our front page any day, and the laid-out portion across the top will be filled with...

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Maybe enterprise solutions just aren't that important inside the googleplex these days, but they ought to be. Why? Because cloud-based enterprise software is not just for big corporations, it's for power users who like to work collaboratively. We're all using tools like Basecamp and Posterous and Tumblr … and many of us are using Google apps. There is a lot to like about the service. Gmail is a powerful tool. Calendaring is awesome. Everything works so well on Android – and iOS for that matter. But there there are two matters Google needs to address right now or face losing me and many of the...

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