Here’s a couple of large-scale projects that also create some lovely, localised content which should be of interest to hyperlocal publishers out there. The first is UK Sound Map – a project from the British Library using Audioboo to create ‘the first nationwide sound map’: Take part by publishing recordings of your surroundings using the [...]
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Content idea: publish local photos on your website
For some simple and effective content, try posting some photos of your local area on your website, these can either be taken by yourself, contributed to you or something you’ve found elsewhere online. Photos can be a local landscape, landmark or just something that really encapsulates local life, such as the above photo of Saturday [...]
A rough idea for playing with Audioboo to capture sounds of your neighbourhood
This is an idea I’ve been mulling over for a little while but I’ve not had the time to do much with it as yet, so I thought I’d just put it out there to see what people think of it. One of the finest pieces of radio I’ve ever heard was when Radio 4 [...]
How to capture stuff
As the convenor of all things digital in your community, you are likely to find yourself receiving all sorts of ‘stuff’. Welcome to your new life as the human scanner. Scribd is a really useful website to just upload the stray word files, PDFs and snapshots of pieces of paper you will receive, either temporarily [...]