Help us map local blogs

Matt Wardman and I are trying to put together a map of UK blogs. Please help by entering any you know in the form below.

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  1. Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    Added some I know about and spreading the word. (As an aside, this is exactly the kind of thing OutMap will make easier.)

  2. Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    Nick and co started doing this for Birmingham a while back. http://bevocal.org.uk/brum-blogs/

    I believe they ran into problems of definition, but semantics was always an issue in this game.

    You’re welcome to scrap http://loblobrum.tumblr.com/ – my list of local blogs in Birmingham. But be careful. I’ve included some which aren’t local blogs but appear to be. In my opinion.

  3. Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    I’m having a conversation with wikio.co.uk about the possibility of a category for “local blogs” (or an equivalent name), aimed at blogs which primarily identify themselves by their area, region or community.

    My thought here is to give locally orientated blogs a better profile than to be spread out across many other non-quite-appropriate categories.

    Wikio are interested, but it would be good to hear any comments from people running such sites.

    What do you think? It would need a number of blogs to say “yes we’d like to do that”.

    Rgds

  4. Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

    http://manchizzle.blogspot.com/ is a hub for masses of Manchester blogs. Well worth a trawl…

  5. Posted August 12, 2009 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    This is a brilliant idea. Mine is located in Leicestershire but really it applies just as much to Manchester. Looking forward to browsing some of the other blogs out there.

    Rose

  6. Posted August 12, 2009 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    Very similar to what we’re trying to do over at BeVocal.org.uk with the hyper-local brum bloggers’ map

  7. Posted August 12, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    If anyone has data I’m happy to share the spreadsheet, which I’ll publish at some point anyway.

  8. Posted August 13, 2009 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    Wow Paul, good work organizing all the UK blogs into a database. You add lotsa value – thx so much from all of us. Pemo

  9. Posted August 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    I’ve just added it to the list but I thought I’d post a link here too. It’s fairly self explanatory:

    http://liverpoolblogs.blogspot.com/

  10. Posted August 17, 2009 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    More later, but I’ve just released a directory of Local Blogs and Websites based on my own lists and some of those submitted via the form.

    Here:

    http://www.nutshell.org.uk/

    It is still very bare bones, and there’s a lot more data to add.

  11. Jane Lee
    Posted August 19, 2009 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    I don’t know any local blogs but it’s a good idea, so I just tweeted this page url

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