Here’s a tip from Jeremy Milarsky of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. It’s a Firefox plug-in/toolbar that allows searches of various public-records sites and such.  
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3167

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fminimediaguy.org%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Ffirefox-plug-in-speeds%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Firefox+plug-in+for+reporters%2C+investigators’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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Here is an excerpt from a proprietary research report from eMarketer that estimates “US user-generated content sites will earn $4.3 billion in ad revenues in 2011, up from $1 billion in 2007. ” The participation numbers strike me as high but there you have it.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fminimediaguy.org%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Freport-puts-dollars-numbers-to-ugc%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Report+puts+dollars+%26%23038%3B+numbers+to+UGC’;
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My recent blog entry about the new suburban web site launched by the Washington Post in Loundoun County, Virginia, put the hyperlocal category on my radar. Last week 19-station chain Fisher Communications purchased Pegasus News, a hyperlocal web site in Dallas. An article in the (Charlotte, North Carolina!) Business Journal said financial terms were not disclosed. It adds that:

“Pegasus launched its Web site [...]

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