Gordon goes local

Gordon Brown is opting for a British holiday this year, along with many people I’ve spoken to over the past few weeks he’s decided to stay closer to home. A trip to Southwold and Scotland will do him, and why not.

Southwold beach huts image from zoer on flickr

Local news - what is local news ?

From Stowe Boyd:

I predict a surge in hyperlocal writing and connecting — I stop short of referring to it as ‘news’ or ‘journalism’ — linked with various aspects of living locally. Since these various threads may not be mutually supportive, they won’t add up to anything like the strange combination of things that we have in the modern newspaper, with its funnies, horoscopes, national news, local sports, classifieds, Sunday supplements, food coupons. I believe that hyperlocal = hypersocial and not just news within some zipcode, it will not just be ‘about’ people, it will be the means through which people connect locally, a social medium, not a news medium.