Pegasus News Debuts New And Improved Texas Gigs

I’ve occasionally linked over to the Pegasus News guys, who are attempting to put together a hyperlocal online news/views “thing” in Dallas.

I’ve also linked over to my buddy Cindy Chaffin’s Texas Gigs site.

Imagine my surprise to discover that the Pegasus Folks and Cindy have teamed up to put Texas Gigs on Web 2.0 Amphetamines. Cindy’s old blog is still a part of the mix, but the site is now a much bigger, interactive hyperlocal online music news/views “thing.”

The Peg guys write about it here. Cindy writes about it here. It gets a mention from Poynter here.

I don’t know if the new Texas Gigs will ultimately be profitable. For Cindy, it’s a labor of love, so that helps. But it doesn’t seem like the development costs could have been THAT much, and it’s the sort of experiment that I think pushes us forward in thinking about the online experience.

I’ve been a little critical over at blogHOUSTON about some aspects of the new Chron.com (mainly the opinion/editorial page) because it just seems like it’s come up a little short on the interactive side while still de-emphasizing the print newspaper’s content. But, I realize that Chron.com is a work in progress, and Dwight Silverman, Dean Betz, and crew seem willing and eager to try different things online. I’m hoping indie experiments like TexasGigs and (eventually) Pegasus News and others will inspire even more online experiments from alternative and established media.

Incidentally, the publishing platform Texas Gigs is using looks *really* interesting.