Ultralocal blogs update and a new local directory: nutshell.org.uk
Last week Paul Bradshaw and I launched an exercise (background) to identify and map as many “ultralocal” blogs and websites as possible.
We have had almost 140 blogs and websites added, albeit with a certain amount of “creative marketing” in the mix, which will reduce the total – depending on the criteria used by each person using the data.
There are so many blogs which can be called “local”, with a wide range of purposes, that I think we are likely to end up with a series of directories rather than a single monolithic website. Otherwise the directory might become so large as to be unmaintainable.
Life in a Nutshell
I have an interest in independent commentary and a movement to rebuild politics from the grassroots upwards. I think a key to this is to react to the recent political scandals by seeking a broader, more rounded view of politics, rather than either rejecting or ignoring political life.
So I’m kicking off with a directory – called Nutshell – based on the following criteria:
* Sites focused on a defined and identified area or community.
* Sites edited and controlled from within that area or community.
* Sites which are editorially independent.
I’m also listing local websites (such as forums) which are not on a blog platform, local aggregators, local directories and networks of sites which are centrally managed.
Nutshell is built using Wordpress, but I’d hope in the future to move to a platform which will enable website-managers to create their own accounts and edit their own details.
Wrapping Up
I’m expecting other directories to be coming along, I hope including one from Talk about Local listing the 150 sites that the project aims to help set up as they are created.
And someone needs to create a Google map of the sites submitted.
Watch this space.
Categories: All WW, Internet / Technical, Local Politics, Media, Micropolis, Political Blogging, Politics
Local community website which I created when I lived in Yiewsley: http://www.yiewsley.org.uk
Was before I discovered blogging, so static rather than interactive; sadly hasn’t been updated since I left the area…
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If it isn’t up to date it won’t qualify, except as an example of the need to build a team to keep it going.
Sorry.
M.
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Thought this might be of interest: London’s Digital Neighbourhoods
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