The Hyperlocal Web

I liked this post from Pegasus News about why they’re one step up from hyperlocal:
The term hyperlocal, referring to deep local neighborhood and niche coverage, has bothered me for some time. Since we’ve launched, it’s occurred to me that there is nothing wrong with the term, per se — but it isn’t a term that [...]

KCNN: Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
(tags: citizenjournalism journalism onlinejournalism)

Where News Consumption Is Heading
“Offer and aggregate hyper-local and niche news, being guides to the best of what’s going on outside their walls, and stop pretending to be oracles.” – Dan Gillmor on what newspapers should do to survive.
(tags: hyperlocal, dan gillmor)

Boston.com Ties Hyperlocal, Local Search
“Boston.com, for instance, is currently on a mission to make its onsite search more relevant at the hyperlocal level by optimizing all its news and features, while crawling local organization sites to come up with content that doesn’t typically come up
(tags: hyperlocal, search)

Are you killing your comments?
“Interactivity is a relationship, built [...]