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Deals in the real, the tangible, the directly imaginable
Speaks the language of collective action, in contrast to the disempowered individualism of ‘small actions’ at the national level
Addresses the individual as a member of a community, as opposed to a citizen of the planet
Speaks peer-to-peer rather than from the standpoint of [...]

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Sarah Hartley from the Manchester Evening News left a nice comment on my post about parking stories.
We’ve had exactly the same experience this week with a story about police parking.
More of a universal than parochial issue perhaps!
I especially like the headline on this story
I commented back that I wasn’t using parochial in a negative sense [...]

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Yesterday a colleague asked me what crowdsourcing was. So I chattered on about pothole maps, and crowdsource maps, pertrol and CD prices. As I was talking I realised that on the surface a lot of the subject areas seemed pretty mundane. Not the kind of thing you would win a pulitzer for.
Later on in the [...]

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After listening to a panel discussion on local journalism Jay Rosen says that the UK is two years behind the US when it comes to collaborative journalism.
It got me thinking about why.
Jay was one of the panel at the 7th Journalism Leaders Forum held at the Department of Journalism. The topic for discussion was [...]

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Here is what I’m thinking about today

Hyperlocal as a type of content not a type of audience
Hyperpersonal is a method of content collection
Hyperpersonal as rubbish way for news organisations to serve ‘news’

Why have I been thinking that? Is it just that there is nothing on TV?
No. I’ve been catching up on my reading this week [...]

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