TheyWorkForYou.com is a great site built by e-democracy charity, mySociety. It provides an easy way for citizens to keep an eye on their MP. You can sign up for e-mail updates whenever your MP speaks in the House of Commons, for example. So wouldn’t it be cool if you could also put this stuff on [...]
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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 [...]
Tools for bloggers
For untutored online adventurers like myself, Google has always been the gateway to exciting things. I always wanted to publish my own writing and when I was growing up it involved carving out a career in journalism. That’s a load of work experience, a degree, a load more work experience and then, if you’re very [...]
'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 [...]