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		<title>Journal Local is sponsoring Hacks &amp; Hackers Manchester!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really excited about this! Many of you will know Journal Local because of the emphasis on hyperlocal, but it&#8217;s also a platform for niche journalism and a consumer of data for re-purposing in support of journalism or hyperlocal reporting. To that end the sourcing and mashing of data is very interesting to me. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/09/06/journal-local-is-sponsoring-hacks-hackers-manchester/</link>
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		<title>Chance to help build useful apps for hyperlocal sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hacks and Hackers is an event intended to bring  journalists and freelance publishers (such as hyperlocal site owners) together with developers (such as myself) to share knowledge on news gathering and coding for new gathering. Organised by ScraperWiki and sponsored by Birmingham Science Park Aston and Digital Birmingham, the event is free to all though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/07/05/chance-to-help-build-useful-apps-for-hyperlocal-sites/</link>
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		<title>Patient Opinion release new, thinner widget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged a while ago about Patient Opinion&#8217;s new widget that offers site owners the ability to embed a widget about health services in their area into their web site. At the time there were a number of items of feedback, including the width which was too wide for most blog sidebars. In response, Patient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/07/05/patient-opinion-release-new-thinner-widget/</link>
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		<title>The Budget&#8217;s local impact: regional reports from HM Treasury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now we&#8217;ve had today&#8217;s budget, why not see if hyperlocal can try and assess the local impact. HM Treasury has provided us with three press notices, a couple of photographs and the regional budget reports, one for each of the 10 regions of England and then one for each of the devolved regions of Northern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/06/22/the-budgets-local-impact-regional-reports-from-hm-treasury/</link>
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		<title>10 ways for hyperlocal sites to work with local papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one has already had a good dollop of re-tweets and blog posts about it so I thought I&#8217;d leave it a while before posting this to give it a *bump* (and because I&#8217;m rubbish and only just got round to it). David Higgerson, who&#8217;s a top bloke from Trinity Mirror and looks after their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/06/19/10-ways-for-hyperlocal-sites-to-work-with-local-papers/</link>
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		<title>Whatever you think hyperlocal is, you&#8217;re wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but you&#8217;re probably right as well. Today a lot of people have been commenting on a blog post by David Ottewell at the Manchester Evening News about hyperlocal. In it, David says, There is a lot of talk these days about ‘hyperlocal’ sites. The idea is that journalists working in a small community can cover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/06/18/whatever-you-think-hyperlocal-is-youre-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Content ideas for hyperlocal web sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our lovely friends at Talk About Local have trained many active community members to run their own sites but they say they often struggle for ideas after the first few posts. So they&#8217;ve started a list of content ideas for new hyperlocals to get started. They include things like local festivals, wildlife, transport and local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/06/18/content-ideas-for-hyperlocal-web-sites/</link>
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		<title>Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round &#124; paidContent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the start of what founder Carll Tucker event hopes will be 3,000 hyperlocal news sites by 2013. Before embarking on creating a hyperlocal news empire, Tucker was editor and publisher of Trader Publications, a community news company based in Cross River, NY. via Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round &#124; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/06/03/hyperlocal-network-mainstreet-connect-raises-3-97-million-first-round-paidcontent/</link>
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		<title>Add NHS customer feedback to your web site or blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patient Opinion is a great service that allows anyone to provide feedback on their experiences of health services in the NHS. They&#8217;ve just realised a widget so that you can embed recent feedback based on criteria you select to your web site. You could use this to provide additional information to visitors or to supplement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/05/28/add-nhs-customer-feedback-to-your-web-site-or-blog/</link>
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		<title>Orange Digital Campaigning Awards (NOT): The local general election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While plenty of people were shouting about how 2010 would see the first social media election, I wasn&#8217;t so sure. A more locally-focused general election seemed on the cards from where I sat (not surprising though as &#8216;local&#8217; is kinda my thing now). The Orange Digital Campaigning Awards are supposed to pick out those good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journallocal.co.uk/2010/05/27/orange-digital-campaigning-awards-not-the-local-general-election/</link>
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