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Local newspapers in peril: The town without news | The Economist
At the moment hyper-local sites tend to be filled with discussions of town fetes and the next music night at the village pub. It may be, says Roland Bryan of Associated, that this is the equivalent of small talk at a cocktail party, and that people will eventually get down to local politics. Or they may not. As local newspapers fail, we may learn that their real value was less as a check on politicians than simply as a forum for casual conversation—a place where a town can talk to itself.
news  hyper  micro  local  etc  froghat 
july 2009 by bkerr
Common Monkeyflower | Model Y - Creating an alternative narrative
"Issue Media's proposition for Ypsilanti is a dedicated site and outreach tools, something much more focused and fleshed out than the Metromode Ypsilanti section, but, of course, not as large as Model D."
ypsilanti  washtenaw  michigan  immediast  smash-control-lines  smash-word-lines  local  journalism  collective  operation-rustbelt 
may 2007 by bkerr
Welcome to Michigoss
"If you’re reading this message it most likely means you’re a close friend of an editor. No matter, michigoss.com has arrived and we urge you to read and to encourage others to read."
annarbor  umich  culture  etc  local  zine  via:vielmetti  via:mahatm 
april 2007 by bkerr
Lion Kimbro’s Blog | Local Names Update
On Lion's agenda: "CLI interpreter -- Write a simple, very basic, single-file CLI interpreter for reading a Local Names 1.5 namespace description, and resolving a search path." This is the biggie for us Mac OS types.
local  names  localnames  hypertext  writing  interface  future  status  sed 
march 2007 by bkerr
Ask City
Annie Wolock shared this search tool at a2b3. Local business searches, confined to a rectangle or circle you draw over a map. Cool but useless toy (unless you've never used Google Earth).
a2b3  cities  local  search  venn-interface 
march 2007 by bkerr
World-Wide Labyrinth Locator - Welcome
"Information about labyrinths you can visit, including their locations, pictures, and contact details, are accessible here, along with information about the many types of labyrinths found worldwide."
local  pedestrian  mazes  labyrinths 
january 2007 by bkerr
High Tunnel Agriculture
"High tunnels may not give you more hours in a day but they will give you months of extra hours in a growing season. Neither rain, sleet, nor snow shall prevent you from tending your appointed ground."
hightunnel  farm  local  food  via:vielmetti 
november 2006 by bkerr
ypsi~dixit: 100 Mile Thanksgiving
"Can you help pool your knowledge with other kind readers to collectively figure out where to buy Thanksgiving food items that were grown within a 100 mile radius of Ypsi?" Should be an arborwiki page.
annarbor  ypsilanti  local  food 
november 2006 by bkerr
yellow chair stories
“My Wi-Fi network is open for neighbours and passers-by. Free access from the yellow chair."
wifi  internet  local  networks  design 
june 2006 by bkerr
Edible Portland
"...is a community-based publication that promotes the abundance of local foods in the greater Portland area."
portland  local  food  consumer  ecology 
may 2006 by bkerr
Practice Matters | Chicago Conservation Corps
"When the city initiated the green rooftop at City Hall five years ago, there was only one contractor in the country who could do the required work. Now there are twenty in the City and more than 69 acres of green roof."
green  chicago  local  civic  volunteerism 
may 2006 by bkerr

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