"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism -- the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet -- was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."

"The point I was trying to make was that there didn't seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirror), or offering a brilliant RSS mashup feature (Guardian), or having RSS icons by each section of your news area (Independent) etc etc - but not doing anything to educate people about what they could do with all this."

"Location-based applications are quickly becoming the hot new thing on phones. .... The whole reason the web revolutionized the world was that it rendered geography irrelevant. People connected worldwide based not on location but on their common interests ... Now mobile phones are inverting everything again, in the other direction — because your location becomes most important thing about you. So how is the return of geography going to change our lives?"

Murdoch on micropayments for news: "I don't think people will pay for it. We're still thinking our way through this and there will be micropayments as part of it, but I'm thinking much more along the lines of subscriptions like The Wall Street Journal does."

"Johnston Press has set the clock back to 2007 and informed staff at The Scotsman and its other Edinburgh papers that Facebook is banned except in special cases."

"During the panel’s Q&A, Gawker Media’s Nick Denton sarcastically thanked the American newspaper industry for being so unaggressive, making it possible for “thugs” like him to succeed. Conversely, Denton said he’d never set up shop in England. “Every single day, those editors get up and try to kill each other,” said Denton. Not so in the U.S."

"AOL’s new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com has surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits in May, after being launched only a month and a half ago."

Frédéric Filloux: "there are already many private entities who make a nice living processing public data. Why not the newsmedia? Take the education market: Why not having editorial products, designed by professional journalists, capitalizing on powerful label such as Le Monde, VG or The Guardian to address this audience with well designed products, in print or online? Think about students, how they could use this new knowledge with their laptops or iPhones. This market is up for grabs. And medias are well positioned to enter it. (Or someone else will.)"

"Each site will have a community publisher, whose role is to oversee what is published and contribute some content, but their primary role is to encourage other local people to get involved, write articles and upload content."

"This list is doing the rounds ‘100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students ... here are some blogs/sites also left off the list which immediately spring to mind as important reading for any (particularly UK-based) journalism students..."

"Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has launched the first phase of its hyperlocal sites, rolling out 23 local community sites in South West England."

"Today's a big day for us at EveryBlock. We're making our source code available. ... But what about EveryBlock.com proper, now that the grant period is over? We've put a lot of love into this project over the past two years, and we're going to continue operating the site as a private company."

"EveryBlock.com is an experimental news Web site that provides information at a 'microlocal' level — by neighborhood or city block. It was funded by a grant from Knight Foundation, which requires the site's backend code to be open-sourced. Here is the code."

Patrick Smith: "The relaunched Evening Standard still offers very little on a local, district level online. In a city made up of inter-connected but often distinct boroughs, it surely makes sense to offer Londoners something relevant to the specific areas they live in. The Standard should become an umbrella for local blogs and news start-ups—a platform for local people to write news about their area."