Seattle, home to Boeing and Microsoft is probably the definitive modern technology driven city – but it is great to see it shares the same ultra local news values as Saltaire. Thanks to Tom for pointing to an interesting post by Cory Bergman about a ‘hyper local’ news experiment (see here).
It is fascinating to see that MyBallard.com covers all the ultra local classics – construction, planning permissions, graffitti, shops opening and closing, events, links to public services and even public transport. An interesting feature is groups of links relating to subdistricts or areas – i haven’t seen that before. The site has a positive constructive tone, uses photos heavily and is nicely laid out in WordPress.
William Perrin
Founder of Talk About Local, Trustee of the Indigo Trust, Tinder Foundation, 360Giving, co-founder Connect8, former member of UK Government transparency panels, former Policy Advisor to UK Prime Minister, former Cabinet Office senior civil servant.Open data do-er, Kings Cross London blogger. Loves countryside. Two small children.
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Tom Steinberg says
30th September 2008 at 4:27 pmThanks for the namecheck. Just a quick post to say that you should tell your readers about this: http://www.groupsnearyou.com/add/start/