Beyond coffee, cigarettes, and the morning paper: Building hyperlocal news systems & engaging...
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Newspapers are dying.
Entire media landscape is transforming.
Where do we begin redefining?
Rethink the whole thing. Go local!
Engage community. Crowd source.
Set up a permanent ongoing repository of community information that is searchable and that
outlasts any single individual.
A documentary in progress.
Collect the important & the trivial. Online, unlimited
storage allows this.
No worries about column inches
Rooted in community
&
evangelist availablevs.
Top-down offering
of “sites available.”
It takesfeet on the ground,
real life, face-to-face connections.
Hyperlocal isn’t new but
• Often try to emulate newspapers inc. ads and editor/reporter hierarchy
• Or it’s one person blogging pro bono until burnout
• Leaving relics of blogs ‘round the Internet
No Ads
Seek indirect support
from businesses
PF HYPERLOCAL
• An organization to help communities start a vibrant hyperlocal news & discussion system
• Free web + sharing at web site
• Setup/Subscription fee for more help
• Social business rather than nonprofit
• Offer for-fee services to corporations, schools, ??? • Basically, how to create a vibrant and sustainable news
community
Posterous
Email is main interface. from account setup to
embedding video
Posterous
Automatically connects toTwitterFacebookFlickrYouTubeWordPressmore
My Questions• What do you think of the concepts?
• Can PFHyperLocal be a social business rather than a nonprofit?
• Other ideas? Other relevant sites to pull in to the system?
• What are you doing?
http://sewardprofile.posterous.com
http://twitter.com/sewardtweets
http://twitter.com/pfhyper
http://pfhyper.com
http://pfhyper.posterous.com
http://sewardprofile.posterous.com
http://twitter.com/sewardtweets
http://twitter.com/pfhyper
http://pfhyper.com
http://pfhyper.posterous.com