Seattle, home to Boeing and Microsoft is probably the definitive modern technology driven city – but it is great to see it shares the same ultra local news values as Saltaire. Thanks to Tom for pointing to an interesting post by Cory Bergman about a ‘hyper local’ news experiment (see here). It is fascinating to [...]
Archive for September 16, 2008
Down in the dumps – litter a classic ultra local problem
Rubbish and tipping is a prime issue for an ultra local site. It is a simple information problem ‐ if you know where the litter is and can tell people, especially the council, it will usually get cleared up. This was a basis for starting my own community site in Kings Cross. Reporting stuff to [...]
Saltaire online – what would Sir Titus Salt have made of this?
This website on the famous Saltaire is a beautiful ultra local site. It was so comprehensive that I thought it might have been done by an agency for the tourist board so I asked Pamela the webmaster to tell the story: I moved to Saltaire in 2003 when I got married. I didn’t know too [...]
Crime and Safer Neighbourhood Teams or Panels
People want to read about crime – mainly to be reassured it won’t happen to them. Every Council ward in England and Wales should now have a Safer Neighbourhoods Team and a Panel that gives the team direction. This is a return to the old school Dixon of Dock Green approach. I am a member [...]
Digbeth is good, keep Digbeth vibrant….
Digbeth is good tickled my fancy – an irreverent, cheerful, colourful site that perhaps confounds the expectations. Digbeth is (or was) spiritual home to Birds custard, Typhoo Tea and a lot of manufacturing, prior to the 1980s but now undergoing huge regeneration. Nicky Getgood has an wonderful up, irreverent and dynamic voice on this blog. [...]