No one likes dog poo. It’s a curse of modern urban life – it isn’t the dog’s fault, it’s the owners’ and sometimes the local authority’s fault for not policing the issue properly. Local websites can help people give voice to a problem that other media outlets ignore (it’s quite hard to sell advertising next [...]
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More sessions for #TAL10 hyperlocal unconference
Wow – there’s a great discussion going on over in the google group on sessions for #TAL10 in Leeds on Saturday 17th April. All this in addition to my roundup of Friday. For those of you who don’t do google groups here’s a quick update. Matt from the great MyTunstall in Stoke-On-Trent has written a [...]
Hyper-hyper-local: blogging from your garden
One of my favourite books at the moment is called Watching the English, by Kate Fox. In it she puts forward some very persuasive generalisations about how we use our gardens, including the observation that we will wait for months for an opportune moment to speak to our neighbours in their front gardens rather than [...]
Help wanted! – come and work on Talk About Local
Talk About Local is a unique empowerment project to help people find a voice online in their communities. You can read a little about the project here in the Guardian and more on the website here. I am William Perrin the founder and am looking for someone to help me run the project over the [...]
Paying for news online – Rupert in the sky with diamonds
As advertising revenue trickles away, a revenue model for newspapers online is elusive. Rupert Murdoch has apparently suggested that his prime properties move towards a pay model. “That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal’s experience,” he said. Asked whether he envisaged fees at his [...]