Boston-based Keith Hopper has a good blog post about the history of hyperlocal news. In it, he touches on questions that are central to Localmouth: how much demand there is for news about our local areas? How and why do people contribute to community news sites? And what role will automated aggregation of information play?
There’s some interesting discussion in the comments, too.
It’s great to see a round-up of this information. There’s a lot to learn from what’s happened so far and from the various efforts that are currently under way and I’d love to see more articles attempt to bring it all together like this to extract some lessons. Keith promises a follow-up post on the future of hyperlocal. Will it involve Localmouth? One to look forward to.
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