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• Center’d Raises $1.875 Million in New Round

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 125
  The year- end money deals continue. Today, the San Jose Business Journal reports that Center’d has raised another $1.875 million on top of the $6.5 million it has previously raised. The two-year-old, Moms friendly local search and events planning site, initially launched as “FatDoor,” is lead by former ...
  8 hours ago

• Hyperlocal-balancing justice with journalism

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 143
  If hyperlocal becomes the trend of 2010 then one of the issues that it will have to grapple from a journalistic point of view is court reporting. One of the criticisms of local papers at the moment is that the days of the journalist sitting in court all day are long since gone. But it can be a minefield and as ...
  20 hours ago

• castles in the sky.

  
  everyday observations of regular people — Authority: 130
  so, flickr is pimping social gaming w/ “noticings.”  it’s a good way to up usage of their geo-tagging feature and harness the whole “omgimplayingagamebutimreallysosriouswiththischeckin” craze (10-1 this is biro’s favorite hashtag now) He’s noticing things around him by photographing them, uploading ...
  1 day ago

• Hyperlocal news sites worth following

  
  Christopher Wink — Authority: 115
  *Updated @ 9:36 a.m. 12/23/09I don’t think anyone’s arguing that a big portion of the future of news will be this hyperlocal movement that continues to dominate the conversation and has grown in focus for many years.So, I’m surprised to say I haven’t been able to find is a comprehensive list of already ...
  1 day ago

• 10 Journalism Trends for 2010 ?

  
  Prof. Kobre's Guide to Videojournalism — Authority: 127
  Savvy UK journalist Adam Westbrook predicts 10 trends for the profession for 2010. Excerpts: 1. Lots of new entrepreneurial startups 2. More journalists working with NGOs 3. Journalists moving into the field of training 4. Increased hyperlocal reporting 5. Paywalls in action See the full list, and watch his ...
  1 day ago

• Noise in the Hood

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 692
  When was the last time you saw the police blotter in your local paper? Chances are that you can barely remember; if you are younger than 30 you may not even know what that means. Even as we drown in more and more news, the resources given to local news are quickly drying up. Advertisers can now target ads to ever ...
  2 days ago

• How Will the World Change in 2010? Some Predictions

  
  Max Gladwell — Authority: 103
  Looking to the year ahead through the lens of social media, computing, mobile, and web technology. Max Gladwell keeps its own calendar , which ends on April 1st each year. We offer a different 12-month period through which to reflect and look forward based on the Max Gladwell launch date. For the standard ...
  2 days ago

• Hyerlocal hits India

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 143
  Editor and Publisher report on the the Siasat Daily The family-owned newspaper was founded exactly 60 years ago, and presents itself as "the most techno savvy Urdu newspaper" in the country. "Muslims are lagging in jobs, in education. We have to help our readers to feel more powerful, to be self-confident, as ...
  2 days ago

• Hyperlocal law blogs offer lawyers big advantages

  
  Real Lawyers Have Blogs — Authority: 573
  Following online publishing, its becoming more and more clear that hyperlocal is the way things are going. Rather than trying to reach a broad geographic region, success is achieved by publishing relevant information to consumers and businesses in a smaller clearly defined locale. Wikipedia defines Hyperlocal ...
  4 days ago

• Recent media links & thoughts

  
  MasterMaq's Blog — Authority: 423
  I read a lot about new media, journalism, publishing, news, etc. I always try to think about the things I read from both a global and a local perspective. Here are some thoughts on the things I’ve read recently. From Jeff Jarvis : I’m not so sure journalism is storytelling anymore. Jeff points out that ...
  6 days ago

• Google’s synchronicity

  
  BuzzMachine — Authority: 663
  On the latest This Week in Google , we talked about many of Google’s product announcements and enhancements and though none on its own was earthshattering, as we added them up, I started to see synchronicity approaching — all the moreso last night when TechCrunch reported that Google’s negotiating to buy Yelp ...
  6 days ago

• Ultimate Idiots

  
  Have a cold one with me — Authority: 111
  As I sit here this morning, cold sleet is pelting my skylights this very moment. A major winter storm is being forecast for this weekend on the east coast. My heat is on and it’s so cold that my natural gas has automatically kicked in to handle what my heat pump cannot. My toes are quite cold right now. I skyped ...
  6 days ago

• Google goes local

  
  BuzzMachine — Authority: 663
  TechCrunch reports that Google is in negotiations to buy Yelp. Makes perfect sense. Google is ready to make an assault on local with its Place Pages and QR codes on local establishments and augmented maps and directions and mobile…. This turf was newspapers’ and phone companies’ to lose and lose it, they will. ...
  6 days ago

• KNC 2010: FollowIndy tries to marry aggregation and geography

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 610
  [ EDITORS NOTE : Were highlighting a few of the entries in this years Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh] Former Indianapolis Star software developer Chris Vannoy brings something unusual to ...
  1 week ago

• How patience in hyperlocal

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 143
  Whats the most important thing in building a local audience......? Patience according to this report from Mark Briggs who attended last weeks interactive local media conference in LA. Patience is a virtue when building a local audience. Yelp COO Geoff Donaker said it takes 18-36 months for a new Yelp site to ...
  1 week ago

• Regionality and diverse revenue streams point to the future

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 143
  Nieman Labs have just released a report looking at journalism nonprofits and asking whether the model can be sustainable. It suggests that those focusing on regionality and with more diverse revenue steams stand a better chance of survival Jim Barnett,as part of his graduate studies in nonprofit management at ...
  1 week ago

• Links from December 15th

  
  Podnosh Blog — Authority: 414
  Here are some of the things I’ve been reading December 15th from 02:21 to 03:00: David Barrie: Love diagrams – “What followed was a sequence of graphics that map the course of human relations in the film – cutely assuming that love relationships are “dynamic” (don’t stop reading) and ignore scuzzy ...
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• ILM:09: Keynote from Yelp COO Geoff Donaker

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 125
  Yelp has taken a counter-intuitive approach by taking a slow and expensive city by city rollout approach – and has apparently succeeded as it attracts 26 million unique visitors per month, up 40 percent from last year, and has planted community managers in 33 cities in the U.S. and abroad. Moreover, the site has ...
  1 week ago

• ILM:09: SMBs Benefit from More Competition to Google, Search Preferences

  
  Local Onliner — Authority: 125
  Yodle CEO Court Cunningham says that a major shift is occurring in SMB marketing as Google starts to give preference in rankings to merchant sites rather than to directory listings. “There are many, many more merchant sites” than there were a year ago, he noted on a panel at ILM:09 that also featured ...
  1 week ago

• Hyperlocal news as a strategy for small businesses

  
  Cision Blog — Authority: 118
  Photo courtesy of gailf548 via Flickr It’s been said that “all news is local”. The maxim is tossed around in newsrooms to remind reporters to look for the local angle to any story. It doesn’t mean that news consumers don’t care about what’s happening around the globe, but that we have an instinct to care ...
  1 week ago

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