SearchEngineWatch: HelloMetro Wins Trademark for 'Hyperlocal'
HelloMetro has won trademark approval for the term 'Hyperlocal', reports SearchEngineWatch. HelloMetro CEO in the comments: "We are not claiming stake to the term all the wonderful journalist use in bringing us "'hyperlocal...

HelloMetro Wins Trademark for 'Hyperlocal' [SearchEngineWatch]
Trademarking the term Hyperlocal?!! Oh, right, I forgot ... Web 2.0 is TM as well.... OK, I guess I'll start saying localhyper

CJR: The Language of Strangers
I heard the beginnings of this from friends at Berkeley when Plotkin came to recruit. Sad to see how he turned out, but fascinating nonetheless.

What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent?
The Boston Globe had a story the other about the travails of the Portland Press Herald last week, and it included a plaintive and intriguing question from a reader of the struggling, up-for-sale Maine paper:"Can you even be a major city without a...

What Will Happen When the Presses Go Silent?
The Boston Globe had a story the other about the travails of the Portland Press Herald last week, and it included a plaintive and intriguing question from a reader of the struggling, up-for-sale Maine paper:"Can you even be a major city without a...

Cyberstar -- chicagotribune.com
In its day-to-day workings, EveryBlock.com, Adrian Holovaty's Web 2.0 startup, is about as far from colorful as a business can get. And Holovaty, one of the nation's hottest computer programmers, isn't afraid to tell you so.

Cyberstar -- Adrian Holovaty is as red-hot as a techie can get. His EveryBlock.com tells you all about your neighborhood-including who's taking bribes.
nice article about Adrian Holovaty, Django, and hyperlocal journalism

A hyperlocal/beat blogging experiment
Sometimes the best way to learn about a subject is just to go out and experiment.With that thought in mind, I’ve launched a hyperlocal/beat blogging experiment, Chagrin Valley Sports. My goal is simple: provide better and more in-depth coverage of...

New York Times: Voices From the Suburban Blogosphere
"Many [bloggers in the suburbs] have let their sites go untended, but a few have built serious local journalism operations, while others have developed a following on certain topics and bask in the muted limelight of Internet fame."

Finally: the answer to hyper-local coverage
OK, I think I get it now. I feel like I understand what newspapers need to do. I wrote up some of this in my latest Editor & Publisher Online column, but subsequent to that I also ran across a significant blog entry from Dudernet: “Newspapers and...

Green is a local journalism niche
Take a look at this listDeals in the real, the tangible, the directly imaginableSpeaks the language of collective action, in contrast to the disempowered individualism of ‘small actions’ at the national levelAddresses the individual as a member...

150 Things You Can Do To Build Social Capital
From: "Better Together, an initiative of the Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, Kennedy School of Government"

The Press and the Public
Approach 4: the public is the pressThis approach avoids established news organizations entirely. The public starts a grassroots journalism effort to provide coverage of issues ignored by the press.

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