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		<title>Thanks for the open data promise (but don&#8217;t forget our freedom of information)</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/thanks-for-the-open-data-promise-but-dont-forget-our-freedom-of-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarahhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome news for those involved in open data campaigning this morning &#8211; the government is looking into new ways of releasing information and has appointed wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to help. The Telegraph says that Wales is one of a number of &#8220;unpaid advisors&#8221; who would help the public sector &#8220;deliver new ways that we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Co-operative model for hyperlocal news on the web</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ally Tibbit has learned through experience what types of non-profit structures work for active hyperlocal sites.  In this guest post for Talk About Local, Ally sketches out how a Co-operative with hundred of members  could be formed to produce local news and return control of the news to the people. As part of my job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;100 million comments a year&#8217; &#8211; mutual support and advice in a shrinking state</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=2883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The deficit reduction programme might drive government bureaucracies and the voluntary sector to adopt more modern means of providing information-based help and advice.  A shrinking state results in fewer people to answer phone helplines and staff desks in public offices.  But state systems and public policy problems are not becoming any more simple yet.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Hunt&#8217;s open letter to the communications industry</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/huntletter/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/huntletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCMS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=2386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would people who publish local websites want from a new communications bill (apart from be left alone)? Suggestions in comments please &#8211; will put some in when i&#8217;ve had a think &#8211; would be happy to round up a set of views, put them into government speak and submit them formally on behalf of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baroness Newlove report on anti social behaviour &#8211; &#8216;technology can help&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/baroness-newlove-report-on-anti-social-behaviour/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/baroness-newlove-report-on-anti-social-behaviour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baroness Newlove has published an excellent report (pdf)today on tackling anti social behaviour.  Her approach is informed by a grass roots, bottom up perspective working with seven neighbourhoods around the country.  Talk about local  helped out with a workshop for the people Baroness Newlove was working with. From that, talk about local is about to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local media and Jeremy Hunt</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/the-local-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=2088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[note - within minutes of publishing this some people have pointed out that the original title could be mis-construed given recent spoonerisms on the radio.  This is abosolutely not my intention a- 'the local hunt' is a fox hunting phrase from my childhood brought up in Northamptonshire's Pytchley country.  Please behave for heavens sake.  Radio4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Gov Camp 2011 sessions of localism and hyperlocal sites and making a difference with data &#8211; notes and links</title>
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		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/ukgc11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mike Rawlins, Nicky Getgood and Clare White from talk about local I had an enjoyable day at #UKGC11 at MicrosoftHQ on Saturday.  Thanks to Dave Briggs and Steph Grey for organising.  I convened sessions on localism and making a difference with data. The localism session cantered through a whole range of hyperlocal issues with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-petitions &#8211; system reform needed to reap the benefits of digital engagment in policy</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/e-petitions-system-reform-needed-to-reap-the-benefits-of-digital-engagment-in-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/e-petitions-system-reform-needed-to-reap-the-benefits-of-digital-engagment-in-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about epetitions was that it never promised to be anything more than a faithful online version of offline petitions.  Petitions have been a staple of British political life for 400 years &#38;dash; they are well understood as being a crie de coeur , a simple way of salving a politicial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What should government do to help hyperlocal news? Cabinet group &#8211; post it notes</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/governmentandhyperlocal/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/governmentandhyperlocal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>william perrin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org/?p=497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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