Society of Editors
Last week I spoke at the Society of Editors regional conference in Manchester. Here are the slides. Posted from Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Tag Archives: hyperlocal
So I wrote a book
Well actually, I contributed a chapter to What Do We Mean By Local published by abramis ISBN 9781845495404. I was approached by the editors and asked if I would like to contribute to the book, the invitation came just after the announcement from The Journalism Foundation about their support for Pits n Pots. So I thought [...]
In Response To The Hyperlocal Landgrab
I read The Hyperlocal Landgrab article over on the New Statesman site, I have tried to post a response to the article twice without success. I’m not sure if the comments go to moderation and get deleted for being dismissive of the piece or what, so for the benefit of whoever I have copied my response here.
BBC Local Radio
Yesterday news that the BBC was looking at hacking away at their 40 local radio stations started to break. I think I read it first in this piece in the Guardian but since it has been reported pretty much everywhere including the by the BBC itself. The short story is that the BBC want to [...]
DropPages
Using Dropbox to create a website. I came across the DropPages site earlier today. From what I can see it has been running for about 2 weeks and is a project by web developer Dave McDermid. DropPages is a beta project that will allow you to create websites by rendering text documents in a shared Dropbox folder [...]
UK Street Level Crime Mapping Goes Live
This morning, well last night actually, www.police.uk went live.
Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. It can also give a maybe unfair view of an area.