Archive for the talk about local Tag

Hyperlocal voices interviewed elsewhere

While I’ve been blogging my series of interviews with hyperlocal bloggers I’ve come across a few more elsewhere that may be of interest – and thought it worth linking to them here. Talk About Local is running a ‘Ten Questions’ series of interviews along the same lines. Nick Booth of Podnosh (which I work for) is writing a blog about
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Hyperlocal Voices: Hedon Blog (Ray Duffill)

The Hedon Blog covers communities in Hedon, East Yorkshire. Established by Ray Duffill at the beginning of last year, he has since gone on to launch the HU12 site as well. This post is part on the ongoing Hyperlocal Voices series. Who were the people behind the blog, and what were their backgrounds? I set the Hedon Blog up after
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Time to talk about legal

As a lone blogger how much legal protection do you have? No more than anyone else, when it comes to libel, contempt of court law and so on, except that people are more likely to pay attention to large media organisations. But there are many instances where bloggers have lost a lot of time and money over legal disputes. Last
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Ultralocal Blogging Roundup. Talk About Local ’09, Guardian, Wired Mag

There have been several events and reports worthy of note in the last week in the world of local blogs and websites . I thought it worth a roundup, and some reflections