10 recommended hyperlocal reads – week commencing 6th May 2013

May 6th, 2013 by Glyn Mottershead in Hyperlocal | no comments

UK Stories

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This is my review of for Journalism.co.uk. It covers new research projects from Ofcom and NESTA, as well as this initiative. It also explores trends such as the move to print, expansion by successful publishers and the challenges of implementing proposals for new press regulation.

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NESTA have published a series of blogs from the 10 projects they are funding under the Destination Local umbrella. They’re worth a read: http://www.nesta.org.uk/blogs/destination_local

3.  “Don’t look back to the age of print. It is a short-term fix.”

4.  The State of Blogging in Leeds

Journalism students at Leeds Metropolitan University have put together their top 20 blogs in Leeds in what @johncbaron describes as “an intriguing post” called the State of Blogging in Leeds.

US Stories

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Mozilla talks about the value of hyperlocal apps over on , saying: “…you don’t have to be an international corporation—that’s the beauty of HTML5 and Firefox OS. If you’re a developer, your only limitations are your imagination—and your goals.”

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 CEO Chris Tolles to Street Fight about how the hyperlocal ecosystem is shaking out, how the shift to mobile is affecting publishers’ CPMs, and why the buy side may keep mobile ad formats from becoming more engaging.

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According to in Search Engine Watch. A study by “Searchmetrics discovered that Google News now makes up 6 percent of all of Google’s universal search integrations.”

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