So if you run or contribute to a hyperlocal website, forum etc imagine waking up one day to find a nice shiny shrink-wrapped journalist on your doorstep with passable modern media skills and all the classic attributes a journalist should have (I said ‘imagine’ not all journalists are NOWesque in the same way not all hyperlcoal bloggers are foaming mad Sid Nutters). And imagine that journalist is yours for say a day a week or can work with a herd of local blogs over the week. What would you do with them?
Archive for July 9, 2009
Talk About Local grows…
I’m delighted that Mike Rawlins of PitsnPots and Nicky Getgood of Digbeth is Good have agreed to join the TAL team full time joining me and Clare White who has been working on the project part time. Mike, Nicky and Clare are some of the best hyperlocal talent around and TAL gives them the opportunity [...]
'Hyperlocal Labs' goes live
There’s some great innovation out there in hyperlocal publishing in both content and technology. Talk About Local wants to showcase and support that innovation. So we have created hyperlocal labs (actually it’s just a web page with some bright ideas on it…) and our first project goes live today. As our first project Jon Bounds [...]