6. placeblogger
Birmingham wasn’t – and still isn’t – a city of
loft living and canalside bars, yet
“organisations” only seemed comfortable
with that little bit of it. To cover the bits of
Brum that real people recognise and care
about is still the main thrust of the site. - Jon
Bounds
Birmingham wasn’t – and still isn’t
– a city of loft living and
canalside bars, yet “organisations”
only seemed comfortable with that
little bit of it. To cover the bits of
Brum that real people recognise
and care about is still the main
thrust of the site. - Jon Bounds
Putting the story up on top
Excavating the story of a place
Instead of traveling farther,
traveling deeper
7. placeblogger
• We have a group of
commenters, equivalent to a
small motorcycle gang, which
proudly calls itself the “eight
trolls” and likes to snarl at soft-
hearted liberals. -- Debbie
Galant, Baristanet
“We Refer to it as your local daily Newspaper Meets The
Daily Show.”
-- Debbie Galant, Baristanet
8. placeblogger
• So much different from all my
years in citywide/regional
news, when we
managers/producers would sit
in a room and often wind up
having to send someone off to
whatever the most shocking
crime du jour in the region
happened to be, parachute in,
parachute out, on to the next
Big Story. -- Tracy Record,
West Seattle Blog
So much different from all my
years in citywide/regional
news, when we
managers/producers would
sit in a room and often wind
up having to send someone off
to whatever the most shocking
crime du jour in the region
happened to be, parachute in,
parachute out, on to the next
Big Story.
Tracy Record,
West Seattle Blog
10. placeblogger
Ushahidi
• “The idea was to at the very
least capture the stories and
offer witnesses a place to tell
their stories. That is where the
name Ushahidi comes from, it's
Swahili and it means
testimony." Ory Okolloh
“The idea was
to at the very
least capture
the stories
and offer
witnesses a
place to tell
their stories.
That is where
the name
Ushahidi
comes from,
it's Swahili
and it means
testimony."
Ory Okolloh