‘This is an emergency. Act now, or local news will die’ said Polly Toynbee’s headline writer in one of the alarmist pieces about the fate of local news in the past month. As readers will know I see a rosy future for hyperlocal or ultralocal news in volunteer-run community websites. And am hopefully close to [...]
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Talking hyperlocal, ultralocal workshop at mashup*
Mashup* ran an interesting event last Friday on the ‘hyperlocal’ agenda. I have been merrily using the term ultralocal when in fact hyperlocal has apparently been trademarked in the USA for local news beneath the radar of the conventional media. There was a crowd of thirty or so software developers and investors interested in how [...]
Saltaire online – what would Sir Titus Salt have made of this?
This website on the famous Saltaire is a beautiful ultra local site. It was so comprehensive that I thought it might have been done by an agency for the tourist board so I asked Pamela the webmaster to tell the story: I moved to Saltaire in 2003 when I got married. I didn’t know too [...]
Listen to us – taking ultra local voice national
I started this blog because i am passionate about the potential of ultra local publishing to empower and build communities. In August i put together some slides that made a more or less coherent pitch. And after much cursing at Slideshare (and the Theme i am using here) the slides are at the link below. [...]
Keep it local, simple, earthy – the dog sh*t agenda
Political folk have a slightly comtemptuous phrase for local street issues – the ‘dog shit agenda’. “What are you going to do about the dog shit on my street?” etc. This sort of thing really matters to peopleprobably more than Georgian geopolitics or the Bank of England monthly inflation report. There is a wonderful discussion [...]