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A very enjoyable day spent at JEEcamp 2010 with many clever and interesting people from the world of web journalism. Plenty of blog posts, photos and links can be found via the #JEEcamp hashtag. My highlights of the day are summarised in 4 tweets:- Perfect end to #jeecamp presentations with insight into another local online journalism service. The [...] At the recent Local Business Summit in Amsterdam I spoke about my work at the BBC on location services and mapping and tried to make the point that, as far as our users/consumers are concerned, the place name is all-powerful when it comes to identifying location. Other means of identifying location (grid references, postcodes, lat/long coordinates) [...] After moving from Birmingham to Nuneaton earlier this year I’ve decided to test out a new local website experiment, moving on from BirminghamB29 to launch The Nuneaton Guide. I work with local web content and location services for the BBC (although this website is entirely separate and in no way associated with the BBC) so this [...] The Guardian have announced a move into the provision of local news on the web in 2010 with the launch of Guardian Local in three UK cities.Sarah Hartley, the Guardian local launch editor said: The Future of Local Media conference in Salford took place today, the same day that Ofcom released it’s response to a Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) consultation on delivering TV news in the nations and regions. Ofcom also released a research report on Local and Regional Media in the UK. Thus Stewart Purvis, Partner, [...] Paul Bradshaw posted some thoughts yesterday on the use of maps on news websites, a subject often discussed on this blog. Most recent ‘highlights’ are discussed such as MPs expenses, although Mapumental from MySociety is not listed, nor is my favourite longstanding example of a local news map, the London SE1 News Map. There is a good [...] Microsoft, through their MSN Local portal, are hoping to provide local news on a map, in partnership with local newspapers across the UK. Northcliffe explain the launch of Local People “a network of websites for people to get together and discuss the issues affecting their communities“. Following my recent post on Will Perrin’s Talk About Local initiative, Jon Bounds has pushed ahead and created a Birmingham Local Blogs Wire by feeding a selection of blogs about Birmingham through Yahoo! Pipes. You can read all about the thinking behind the Birmingham Blog Wire here. Robin Hamman (@cybersoc) and I spent many an hour talking [...] Another attempt to provide local communities with a voice online has recently been piloted by Northcliffe Media in South West England. From journalism.co.uk The new platforms will be evenly distributed between areas with existing [...] |
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