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Coming round to ‘hyperlocal’: my notes on the Talk About Local unconference 2010

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:47 pm
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  • ‘Hyperlocal’ has been a buzzword in the online engagement community for about eighteen months, and to be honest it’s not one I’ve been comfortable with: why try and define a sub-category of ‘local’ which is itself pretty undefinable? I still have a bit of a problem with it, but yesterday it did become clearer to [...]

Talk About Local unconference 2010: Election coverage discussion

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:45 pm
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  • This discussion at yesterday’s Talk About Local un-conference was for bloggers and local websites wanting to report and discuss the imminent UK General Election. We heard that whereas it used to be the case (in broadcast journalism at least) that each political party had to be given exactly the same coverage, that is no longer [...]

Talk About Local unconference 2010: Finding stories

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:44 pm
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  • So you’re keen to report on your local area. But what do you report on? In a session at the second Talk About Local un-conference, Ray Duffill sourced suggestions for finding stories. A brainstorm of the room (and subsequent discussion) came up with an abundance of ideas: Speaking to people on the streets, in the [...]

Talk About Local unconference 2010: Legal issues discussion

  • April 18, 2010 at 6:42 pm
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  • The first session I went to at yesterday’s Talk About Local un-conference was on the legal problems of managing sites that allow user feedback or investigate stories of public interest. It’s very depressing to hear of the crippling situations people repeatedly find themselves in, simply through a determination to get at the truth in the [...]