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, 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 kids, not enough sleep.
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Thanks for the namecheck. Just a quick post to say that you should tell your readers about this: http://www.groupsnearyou.com/add/start/