"[T]he trouble is, for many people, local news is boring and not relevant to them. And hyper-local (aka, local-local) is even more so. This is especially so for people who don’t have strong ties to the community in which they live."

Adrian Monck wonders whether the emphasis on "hyperlocal" news is misplaced. Sociology 101 backs this up: not every geographically-bounded administrative unit is actually a "community".

Shane Richmond hits back at recent Guardian stories criticising MyTelegraph users’ views.

"The Latin [American] papers were reacting to the Web, too — but they seem to see their local efforts as ways to imitate the Web’s interactivity and its encouragement of self-expression."

Mark Potts: "Managing comments on newspaper Web sites isn’t exactly rocket science. But newspapers seem to keep thinking that it is. … fully anonymous, ungoverned comments turn into chaos. Surprise!"

"The move to ONEsite is still a few weeks away but once the first phase is done we will shift our attention to new features. … The third phase of development for My Telegraph is intended to integrate the site more closely with Telegraph.co.uk."

"What can you do if a patient conducts a scurrilous campaign [against a doctor] on the Internet, calling into question your skills as a doctor? Barristers Michael Salter and Chris Bryden advise."

"When it comes to local content - particularly community / social action, or news (outside major news organisations) there is, according to the [Ofcom PSB] report, precious little out there."

"A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a small number of postings, failed to create much interaction between the blogger and the audience and attrac

The Palm Beach Post’s new neighbourhood-level hyperlocal (sorry, WMH) site.

"Backyard Post is built: Neighborhoods. Not cities, ZIP codes or some other vague, gigantic or similarly off-the-mark stab at reaching actual humans in the actual neighborhoods where they actually live."

"As part of our aim to create more community tools we also have a facility to allow your friends keep up with you, to show them what you’re reading. This is what we call clippings."

"[There is] a whole category problem with online journalism: people with no understanding of it, and with no understanding of how useable media comes about and comes to be trusted, can airily and condescendingly claim a company "gets it" just because they

Readship is shifting online, yet online operations are short of staff and tacked on to the print product; newspaper blogs provide niche audiences, but not niche micro-advertising opportunities.