What won’t happen in 2009 – and what might
This month’s Carnival of Journalism looks forward to new media developments in the coming year. Here are my no doubt misguided and naive predictions: 2009 will not be the year of the mobile web Every...
View Article5 hyperlocal things {UPDATED}
A new community for hyperlocal bloggers has been launched: Hyperlocal Alliance is “intended for grass-roots hyperlocal site owners, [and] is invite only (at the moment)”. The Journalism Foundation has...
View ArticleHyperlocal Voices: Ed Walker and Ryan Gibson, Blog Preston
For the third in our new series of Hyperlocal Voices we head North to the city of Preston in Lancashire, UK. Damian Radcliffe spoke to Blog Preston‘s Ed Walker and Ryan Gibson about some of the...
View ArticleHyperlocal Voices: David Williams, MyTown Media
The latest in our series of Hyperlocal Voices sees Damian Radcliffe talk to David Williams, co-founder of MyTown Media Ltd, which runs four hyperlocal websites in Wales. When were the sites launched?...
View ArticleGuest post: hyperlocal Groundhog Day – why policy makers need to support UK...
Groundhog image by Alessandro M In a guest post for OJB, Damian Radcliffe argues that the need for policy makers to support hyperlocal publishers is stronger than ever – and explains just how that...
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