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Tony Berkman is a real moron here.

"Broo is an online citizen journal where writers submit original content and receive readership, exposure and community feedback and connection.

The site was recoded, about 6 months ago, and a new design created, so it is has strong code base that can be duplicated into other niches, by the new owners, be they food, to tech, woman's interests, mens toys, etc. to college papers, to local town papers.

There are is no shortage of freelance writers looking for exposure. Many of them are incredibly talented & also want an opportunity to remain employed or start a business.

The platform that BrooWaha runs on is clean, in a kohana framework, which means to non-tech guys, like myself, that anyone who knows php and kohana can easily work on it.

With energy you have a business here that is a platform for you to "put people into business" and start to make money off of their sites. The Broo platform provides the opportunity for incredible leverage. Almost like a franchise model. Multiple cities, multiple niches.

The current Broo was rebranded when we purchased it to have more of a "new york times" feel. The site caters to people who want to get exposure for their freelance work, build a portfolios and promote their blog work. Changing the design, giving it a new look and feel, and creating a new domain, is a straightforward process for a designer and a php programmer.

If you have business savy, and can market to other people, you can sell the Broo platform to former journalists, niche fanatics, people who are looking to start their own business -- all day long.

This site is easy to manage. Almost anyone can approve and reject all articles in about an hour a day. If you want to spend more time, you can spend 2 and engage the community. So max. 2 hours a day to run the site because the community is the key to BrooWaha.

For most visitors, and the community, the Broo platform looks better than a typical wordpress blog. It has the feel of a paper. More rich media functionality, such as giving Broos, and new sites launched with this platform, should include the ability to upload videos and a stream of photos. This is not part of the current site, though could be done quite easily.

The Market Opportuntity: Broo and it's platform fills the gap between traditional papers who are going out of business and firing writers. And writer's who are now looking for a platform to get exposure and a job.

Depending on your approach you can focus on the BrooWaha community and build it. Or as many of the members have expressed they would like to launch their own "version" based on their interests. Obviously the market isn't limited to the current members either.

On the main BrooWaha site, the content goes though an editorial process. Based on guidelines articles are approved or resent to the authors to make changes. The admin area is very well organized and easy to use. This again can be tailored depending on the type of "online paper" that is being launched.

Other Features:

All writers receive a ranking based on reader reviews. They receive "private comments" from readers on a widget that displays on what they've written.

The ranking of articles is done by an algorithm that was written by the previous owners and adapted by us to factor in recency slightly more as well as author participation. Author's receive a ranking score for their activities on the site. The points earned could be monetized as their are third party companies who convert points into prizes, and money.

Main topics and sub categories. Depending on type of site, these can easily be changed.

Author Profiles: Each author has a profile page that displays all his or her work.

BrooWaha takes a worldwide news approach. This is probably not where the major opportunity lies. It does however server as a launchpad for getting other sites going. Niche sites can be launched quite fast. It will require some design, css and php skills. The sites could then be owned by yourself or fees charged to the reporter / enthusiast responsible for managing the new site. Essentially this is a news style platform, that is a more familiar format for readers moving from paper to online.

So, if it is so great why am I selling it? Bottom line, Id rather not sell it. However, due to a problem with traffic on my main site, revenues dropped substantially and I am selling off what I can to focus on blogcatalog.

Other Stats: Typically 4 to 8 new articles are submitted on any one day. The number of active writers is approximately 80.

Monetization

Google ads

If hyperlocal versions are launched, such as for your town, or for a college paper, or a specific sport or type of food, or lifestyle, cpms will be higher. The longer term approach, that makes more sense, would be to open up more "papers."

You can read more about the site's background on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broowaha

There is also an image of how it used to look.

Revenue Details
Approx. $60 a month from adsense."

https://flippa.com/auctions/102106/Established-PR-Network-of-Writers--Gr...

BrooWaha is Dead. Broo is Dead. Tony Berkman wilk have to PAY someone to take it off his hands. And don't even let Tony Berkman "host" it for you. The Tony Berkman Gang has conclusively proven they know nothing about networks, the internet or business, let alone community. So what makes you htink they know how to host this dead site, this Broo.

1. The Tony Berkman Gang has a mystical belief in the power of business, and corporate web standards, usability, and tableless CSS, when It’s the community, stupids!
2. You should be able to look at the home page of any web site and figure out what the site is about within four seconds. If you can't, the site is a failure. Did you get that Tony Berkman, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, Jack Bates, CPA John, and Angie Alaniz? BrooWaha under you became a failure and remains a failure. BrooWaha and each of its City Editions under Ariel Vardon and DigiDave was a success.
3. How do you create Viral Content? The answer depends on the likes and dislikes of you, the web site’s audience. Remember, it's what you, the web site visitor wants that counts. . Did you get that Tony Berkman, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, Jack Bates, CPA John, and Angie Alaniz? 
4. You like consistency. Consistency is one of the most powerful web site usability principles: when things always behave the same, you don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, you know what will happen based on earlier experience. Every time you release an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will drop on his head. That's good. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang immediately violated that web site rule.
5. The more your expectations prove right, the more you feel in control of the system and the more you like it. And the more the system breaks your expectations, the more you will feel insecure. Oops, maybe if you let go of this apple, it will turn into a tomato and jump a mile into the sky. Which is exactly what’s happened at BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang.
6. You are highly goal-driven on the Web. You visit sites because there's something you want to accomplish. The ultimate failure of a website is to fail to provide the information its visitors are looking for. Which is exactly what’s happened at BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang.
7. Disappearing acts: I am floored by how BrooWaha, members and content, under The Tony Berkman Gang is here today, gone tomorrow, and maybe back again next Tuesday changed without anyone’s permission.  It may sound obvious to say that it's incredibly important that any Web site is up and running when you go looking for it, and it had what it has the last time you were there, but the disappearing act is a mistake that BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang made.
8. Seems clear to me now that The Tony Berkman Gang did not properly determine the purpose of BrooWaha. Nor their target audience. None of The Tong Berkman Gang asked themself: "What content does BrooWaha have that would cause anybody in their right mind to visit BrooWaha site a second, third, or fourth time?" This is extremely important. You might con (seduce) someone to visit your site once, but why would they want to come back a second, third, or fourth time? If you can't answer this question, you really shouldn't have a web site. Should you?
9. Sites such as BrooWaha only work when Content Trumps Design. BrooWaha under Ariel and Digi met these standards:
   
   1. Candor
   2. Urgency
   3. Timeliness
   4. Pithiness
   5. Controversy
10. BrooWaha under Ariel Vardon and DigiDave had style, quirk, charm, and substance. Remember that you are looking for information that will help you make a decision, so the web site should be informative and relevant to you, the visitor in its Appearance, Content, Functionality, Website Usability, and Search Engine Optimization. Yes, it's called a web page, but that doesn't mean The Tony Berkman Gang has to cram everything on one page. Ariel’s links to his BrooWaha City Editions was way cool. Ariel was easy and elegant in adding material to each BrooWaha City Edition home page as each then linked to BrooWaha.
11. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang has so much “content” vying for attention, it’s difficult for your eyes to find the focal point. You get confused and you leave. The Tony Berkman Gang has failed to organize BrooWaha properly — probably a combination of not planning and poor navigation.
12. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang has broken or poorly constructed components that leave you, the visitor frustrated and disillusioned with BrooWaha. Across the spectrum, everything at BrooWaha no longer works as expected, including hyperlinks, contact info, site search, log in, getting published, getting timely published, not being disappeared, content changes, and so on. Did I say that it's all about solving you, the web site’s visitor’s issues, challenges and problems?
13. With BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang I now have to hunt for material of interest, endure bad links as BrooWaha has a failure to update links, figure out Overscan, which is page overflows the screen, waste time scanning lack of meaningful content, and endure serious spelling/grammar errors. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang was designed for their needs, not yours. It gets worse.
14. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang fails to create links from the main page to read more about a particular topic. Even the Search Engines will reward you for this behavior.
15. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang failed to keep the BrooWaha consistent layout which was far more usable and internet friendly.
16. BrooWaha under The Tony Berkman Gang fails to remember, you, its visitor is in a hurry – you don't like to hunt for information. That was never a problem under Ariel and Digi.

Tony Berkman, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, and Jack Bates, next time you have guests, perhaps you’ll know to throw a better party.

New BrooWaha owners, Tony Berkman and his partners, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, Jack Bates, immediately ran their BrooWaha acquisition into the ground. Whether it was arrogance, ignorance or bad decisions, or even a combination of, they immediately totally ruined what was a site that was vital and growing fast.

Surprise. They now have BrooWaha up for sale. A ruined, useless shell of what once a vibrant, dynamic, exciting, fun, lively, intelligent, open site, is what they now have up for sale. I bet that just has something to do with the disappearance of several BrooWaha writers and contributors removed against their will from BrooWaha. Tony Berkman’s changing writers’ articles over what the writer had submitted did upset and anger several existing writers. So did the fact that Tony Berkman changed articles without the writer’s permission. Then there’s the cat yowls to just leave. Oh, and the Free Speech trampling. Who would want to hang out in such an environment. Tony Berkman, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, and Jack Bates, next time you have guests, perhaps you’ll know to throw a better party.

According to http://flippa.com/auctions/99848/Citizen-Journalism-Community-Site--Wiki... “BrooWaha is an online citizen newspaper that I purchased in Oct. 2009. The site is listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broowaha.” I do not know who the I” is. This “I” continues with the fact that they just bought BrooWaha in October 2009 and it’s quickly up for sale.
This site also claims the Seller is friedeggs who is perhaps Tony Berkman and then there’s his partners, Alan Handwerger, Tom Lewis, Jack Bates.

This “I” continues with “Its original focus was local. After purchasing it I redesigned the site and kept local focus though at a tag level. It does not have an iphone app and can use another facelift. I’m selling it, with the other sites, to get back to focusing on blogcatalog, which is my primary business and needs cash for a relaunch in August. There are great opportunities for broo to benefit from blogcatalog's bloggers. So far zero promotion of broowaha has been done on blogcatalog because my partner's have not felt it's ready yet.

Once the new blogcatalog is launched id be more than pleased to help the new owner promote broo to blogcatalog members. We have 340,000 on blogcatalog -- all of whom are writers with their own blogs.
The purchaser of Broo, if you want, can host the site for free for a year for free as we have a pretty large number of servers for BlogCatalog. The site's hosted at Rackspace which is good. I'm sure the current editors would be more than willing to continue in some capacity as to date they have been volunteering though clearly would like to see someone do something more than I have, with BrooWaha.com

Revenue Details

Approx. $60 a month from adsense.

I can't remember though I think I paid $15,000 for broowaha. I can double check if you are interested.”

Broowaha? What a waste of what once was a great site going to even greater places!

With all this Twittering and Facebooking and Social Networking, who has time to add meaningful content to their web site. My main activity is providing information about franchises for sale, I want to DO it, not Twitter about it.

You want real people to follow you? Then you need to tweet stuff that real people like. I use urlchef.com's twitter automation software to automatically tweet jokes and quotes and it gets me a ton of real people. Every once in a while I tweet an affiliate link and guess what? The real people click and buy and I make money.

Good article. I'll add to it about the content that

First Amendment Right to Anonymous Free Speech

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A much-cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:

Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical, minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.

The tradition of anonymous speech is older than the United States. Founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius," and "the Federal Farmer" spoke up in rebuttal. The US Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized rights to speak anonymously derived from the First Amendment.

The right to anonymous speech is also protected well beyond the printed page. Thus, in 2002, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring proselytizers to register their true names with the Mayor's office before going door-to-door.

These long-standing rights to anonymity and the protections it affords are critically important for the Internet. As the Supreme Court has recognized, the Internet offers a new and powerful democratic forum in which anyone can become a "pamphleteer" or "a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox."

On December 21, 2007, Superior Court Judge Terence Flynn granted EFF's motion to quash the Township's September 26th subpoena seeking the identity of datruthsquad and denied a motion by the township to authorize future subpoenas, finding that the subpoena amounted to "an unjust infringement on the blogger's First Amendment rights" and that the blogger "has a right not to be drawn into the litigation." Judge Flynn denied the motion for a protective order, finding that it was unnecessary at this time.

More from Judge Flynn's ruling from the bench:

"And I [...] recognize that there are First Amendment issues with regard to disputes with the past administration. And that anyone [...] has a right to make their feelings clear. And they have a right not to be intimidated by the issuance of discovery requests in order to shut them down. For that reason, in many ways, the authority cited by the intervenor is correct and accurate. And first of all the [...] blogger, if in fact it's an individual person, and I'm assuming absent any evidence that it is another individual person, has a right not to be drawn into the litigation and forced to reveal identity or to impede on his or her First Amendment rights simply on a suspicion, however founded or unfounded, and I don't believe that this suspicion is sufficiently founded at this point to determine that it is Mr. Moskovitz. That person should not be drawn into the litigation and forced to abide by the rules with regard to exchange of information that the parties have, as opposed to a third party. So the Court is satisfied that there is no authority under law for this particular subpoena to obtain this private information. To allow the subpoena would be undue and unjust infringement on the blogger's First Amendment rights. There's no factual basis at this point, other than a mere suspicion for the justification. And ultimately that even if the information were obtained, it would be so remote to the actual elements of this litigation that it would not be admissible under any circumstances."

• First Cash v. John Doe
• Manalapan v. Moskovitz
New Jersey Township tries to unmask anonymous online critic.
• Dominick v. MySpace
• Fix Wilson Yard v. City of Chicago
• E. Van Cullens v. John Doe
• RIAA v. Verizon Case Archive
• Doe v. Cahill
• Merkey v. Yahoo SCOX, Groklaw et. al.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/06-278.pdf

http://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

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