Matt over at hyperlocal blogger has made an interesting post about what makes a good local blogger. He stresses the need for decent interesting content, rather than opinion. This chimes well with me – in kings cross we generally try to keep opinion to a minimum, except where big local campaigns are running. We don’t have editorial rules per se, rather we do it by feel. In a physicial community people are more interested in the facts and news than they are what you think about it. You need as well though a good broad human network on the ground both to feed you information and to spread the word about the site – this is vital and something bloggers often miss. A network of folk who never leave their screens isn’t much use.
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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