8 month ago
jonhicks : Westcote Inn - Cotswold Accommodation and restaurant situated in Nether Westcote
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10 month ago
jonhicks : Compulsive Design - Websites & Graphic Design, Wallingford. Oxfordshire
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10 month ago
wearehugh : Hot Competition For Pre-School Slots Puts Parents Out in the Cold :: WRAL.com - i swear to god, i misread this headline as "sluts" instead of "slots". i still think it's a lot more interesting my way.
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jonhicks : :: Welcome to Steve Kelly Design :: - Local Flash developer
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18 month ago
jimray : CNN.com in a deal with IBS? - Huh? The same IBS that runs all of those NBC local affiliate websites? NBC, as in the last three letters of MSNBC? Rex, WTF, yo?
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jimray : My buddy Geoff Dougherty got Knight Foundation money for ChiTownDailyNews! - This is fantastic, he'll do great things with that!
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18 month ago
Andy Baio : Adrian Holovaty leaves Washington Post to build local news startup - with a $1.1m grant; I hope it's like Chicago Crime writ large
jimray : Adrian Holovaty got a Knight News Challenge grant, leaves Washington Post - Everyblock will focus on hyperlocal, it sounds like
Khoi Vinh : Adrian Holovaty Leaves Washington Post - “I’ll be founding a Web startup, EveryBlock, that focuses on making local news and information useful.” Thanks David for the tip.
Simon Willison : Knight Foundation grant - Knight Foundation grant. Adrian’s leaving the Washington Post to found EveryBlock, a startup focusing on local news and information in the style of ChicagoCrime.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Ann Arbor’s reaction to Pfizer leaving - Wiki local activism
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jimray : LJWorld launches local business directory - Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.
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20 month ago
jimray : Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes - "What I want from my local newspaper"
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21 month ago
jimray : What do you want from your local news site? - Or, from the local section of your national news site...
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21 month ago
jimray : NY Times to launch "City Room" site to focus on local stories (?)
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22 month ago
jimray : KCNN: Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
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jimray : Buzz.mn is the Star-Tribune's Drupal-powered community site - Looks like this is finally live. I'd like to see better integration with the rest of the site, but this is an obvious future for newspapers. Looks great.
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22 month ago
jimray : For Local News Site, Model Just Didn't Click - On the demise of Backfence
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22 month ago
jimray : The Long Tail: The Vanishing Point theory of news - "I'll start reading my "local" newspaper again when it covers my block." I have a lot of problems with this "theory" but the idea of news that is relevant to people's lives is powerful
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25 month ago
jimray : Introducing Outside.in - Steve Johnson's new hyperlocalaggregator thingie
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26 month ago
jimray : Gothamist Labs: Map - Gothamist gets all hyperlocal on your ass
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26 month ago
kellan : Cafe La Taza - Given the availability of world class coffee in SF, its funny how many mornings I end up getting the morning fix here. #
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration - increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages
kellan : Upcoming.org: News: Undiscovered Events, Flickr Integration, and More - And an awesome new release from Upcoming #
jimray : Upcoming adds undiscovered events, Flickr integration - I kinda dig the two tiers of Yahoo these days, one for the nerd/hacker set, one for everyone else
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Linkorama : Palo Alto - The Film - PALO ALTO is the story of four college freshman on their last night of Thanksgiving Break, their first time back since leaving for school. We follow them as they come to realize that their small town, once seemingly boring and meaningless, has much more t
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jimray : Seattle, WA Apartments. Apartment Rental Search - Cool new Craigslist/Google maps mashup. Better searching than the Housing Maps mashup
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29 month ago
Linkorama : ideo - blog post on IDEO Prototypes the Future, my mom's latest exhibit at the Palo Alto Art Center
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