With Rachel Sterne of Ground Report I co-chaired a meeting of folk interested in hyperlocal media in the UK. The meeting was at the Department of Culture Media and Sport at the request of Sion Simon MP the UK Culture Minister in advance of the digital britain bill. I shall post more on the discussion [...]
Archive for October 16, 2009
Useful things you can do with a Google Map
Copy it into a new map This is really useful if someone has created a Google map and you want to use the points without adding them all manually, or you want to add more content while using an original map as a template. GMaps Tips has the original guide: I’ve tried this in Internet [...]
How to create a map
Maps are really useful on hyperlocal sites. There are a number of tools to create your own map. Google’s My Maps is an easy one to start with and you can easily link to it, embed it and invite other people to collaborate with you. Read Google’s introduction to My Maps here. You’ll need to [...]
Map the local web using Delicious
The thing about websites in local areas is that they’re often not very well linked to one another. I found in Stoke that I would struggle to find websites I’d seen on a shop sign unless I remembered the exact address, because Google wasn’t aware of their existence (see How to get the top of [...]
Standard changes to make to a free WordPress blog
This is a talk about local guide compiled by Nicky Getgood using Chris Unitt’s My standard changes to a free WordPress.com blog. Standard changes to make to a free WordPress blog The following are just a few steps someone with a new WordPress.com blog might want to make to their site. A couple of notes [...]