Since its launch online just nine months ago, York’s One&Other has attracted attention locally and further afield for its ambitious mix of culture and news for the city. This month saw it launch a magazine and there’s even a television station in the pipeline. I asked managing director Stuart Goulden about how the hyperlocal initiative was [...]
I rather unsuccessfully, due to network issues, ran a session on Geo-location, at #TAL12 on Saturday. Geo-location is the new project I am working on here at Talk About Local which is being funded by Nesta & Nominet Trust. The Geo-location project or HypARlocal as it is known at TAL towers, is very short, it [...]
As we reported earlier in the week, lots of hyperlocal news sites have found their way into Google News. Presumably some changes have taken place in the giant algorithm and now it seems people searching for local news and information in some areas are as likley to be presented with a hyperlocal blog as they [...]
A lot of discussion has been sparked this week by Richard Jones’ article for the BBC Journalism College ‘Why I couldn’t make a living from my successful hyperlocal’ which looks at the reasons he felt the excellent Saddleworth News wouldn’t give him a livelihood. Predictably it is being seized upon by those looking for evidence [...]
The Google group gets active To help with those important pre-unconference conversations we have invited all confirmed attendees to the #TAL12 Google group, which you can use to introduce yourselves, suggest and discuss session ideas, make shared travel arrangements, etc. If you have not received an email invitation, you can join the #TAL12 Google [...]