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	<description>Just another Talk about Local weblog</description>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our new look home built by the really ace people at Substrakt. 
We have combined all our websites in to this handy one size fits all site so people don&#8217;t get confused by looking at our corporate site or our resource site. Everything has been merged in to this site and should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/welcome/</link>
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		<title>Getgood Linkage #1: Heritage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I find myself emailing people who have requested links and/or information about creating community content around a particular subject or issue.  I&#8217;m thinking it would be better for me to share that information with everyone, so I&#8217;m going to  start copying it into blog posts here.  One topic I get asked a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/getgood-linkage-1-heritage/</link>
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		<title>talk about local at Borderlines Film Festival this Thursday</title>
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This Thursday 4th March myself and Mike Rawlins will be leading a talk about local workshop at The Courtyard, Hereford as part of the Borderlines  Film Festival, Britain’s biggest rural film festival.  The workshop is part of a series of events under the banner &#8216;Here Comes Everyone &#8211; Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/talk-about-local-at-borderlines-film-festival-this-thursday/</link>
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		<title>#TAL10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk About Local Un-Conference 2010
We are pleased to announce that the Talk About Local Un-Conference 2010 will be held on Saturday 17 April at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.  Old Broadcasting House is an excellent venue in Central Leeds, in the Civic Quarter just off the Ring Road.
We are delighted that this event will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/tal10/</link>
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		<title>Hyperlocal government data gets debate on crime going &#8211; open data case study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece on my hyperlocal Kings Cross site on how data from the London Data Store showed a puzzling rise in ambulance call outs to assaults.  In general crime is going down, but there was a strong upward trend in ambulances being called out to assault incidents. I asked people to check my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/hyperlocal-government-data-gets-debate-on-crime-going-open-data-case-study/</link>
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		<title>Have your say on the future of news in Wales, Scotland and Tyne Tees/Borders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government has one of the world&#8217;s biggest innovation funds for the future of local news – the so called independently funded news consortia or IFNC.    Pilots will run in Wales, Scotland and the Tyne Tees/Borders TV regions, hopefully embracing the full spectrum from hyperlocal to regional news.  I am on the panel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/ifnc/</link>
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		<title>Hyperlocal and the future of journalism &#8211; Alan Rusbridger Hugh Cudlipp lecture 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian gave the annual Cudlipp lecture this evening entitled &#8216;Does journalism exist&#8217;.  He featured an interview i did with him about the hyperlocal website i run in London&#8217;s hard-pressed Kings Cross (i have inserted links):

&#8216;&#8230;..Which – before we think about business models – is probably a good moment to introduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/cudlipp/</link>
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		<title>Council newspapers not VFM apparently &#8211; Audit Commission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Audit Commission was asked in digital britain to review the state of council publications, newspapers etc.  Their report to Stephen Timms has emerged on their website (despite carrying an embargo for Monday 25).
There is something in it for everyone but overall it damns expensive council newspapers with faint praise.  The Commission rightly defends councils&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/council-newspapers-not-vfm-apparently-audit-commission/</link>
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		<title>Small circles of kindness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of many ideas that really appealed to me in David Halpern’s Hidden Wealth of Nations, which I’m reading at the moment, is Fureai kippu, or ‘caring relationship tickets’.
This is a community currency which operates in Japan, creating social structures to replace family and community units which broke down as people become more mobile. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/small-circles-of-kindness/</link>
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		<title>Local Public Data Panel &#8211; what data would you like to see your council release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write, I am at the first meeting of the Local Public Data Panel.  As preparation I asked people interested in the topic on Twitter and Facebook for some raw material to feed in.  Thanks to all who commented &#8211; this has been very helpful.  I shall update further on the panel in due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/lpd/</link>
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