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NY Times on ‘Hyperlocal’
Screenwerk — ... on “hyper-local” news and blogging, focused on EveryBlock. It’s such an unwieldy subject. Lots of stuff that was discussed didn’t make it into the final piece but it’s a good survey: If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer . . . The sites, like EveryBlock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch, collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with ...

Hyperlocal Gets Some Hype
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Hey did you hear that newspapers are having a tough time these days? Of course you have unless you are living under a rock. You can’t turn around without hearing more doom followed a little more gloom when it comes to the newspaper industry. As discussed here on more than a few occasions, some of these troubles are deserved while others are just part of progress. What was once cool and hip most likely will be set aside for progress unless it decides to play along. Ask those folks who thought that word processing was a fad and that the typewriter would stick around (if you still use a type writer PLEASE ...

Hyperlocal Information
StayGoLinks — ... It is interesting to see further confirmation of this in a New York Times item this morning (tip of the hat to Greg Sterling) entitled ‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers. A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists.  The sites, like EveryBlock, Outside.in, Placeblogger and Patch, collect links to articles and blogs and often supplement them with data from ...

Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Search Engine Journal — ... Placeholder is my favorite resource to find location-based discussions and articles. It has a fairly large database of US cities it tracks and a huge index of local blogs. ...