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.
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. Th Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
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.
This is a longer post from #HyperWM about the Bloggers (I still hate that word) Vs Press Officers session which I ‘ran’ with Dan Slee. I am not going to reproduce the whole session here but pick out some of the discussion (I think argume Continue Reading
Another short brain dump of stuff I said at #HyperWM In a session about Local Authorities working with local bloggers (I hate that term now, I think we have grown up above being called ‘bloggers’) there were a lot of discussions about man Continue Reading