A newspaper – the press in general – needs a moral centre. Not to moralise – no, not that – but rather to make you feel it’s a friend, a companion, with a core personality – maybe, better, core persona. Either way, prepared to accompany you on this journey we call existence. As I wonder how I might help to create hyperlocal media, I also … Continue reading the #press and its moral centre
If you can read Spanish (ie castellano) and you’re interested in governance, this article is for you. A key sentence which I’ll translate for you below: […] Conviene recordar aquí que la Administración del Estado moderno no nació, en realidad, para innovar, sino justo para lo contrario: para garantizar las condiciones de certeza, estabilidad y seguridad jurídica que debían permitir hacerlo a los agentes privados … Continue reading the public sector: why we need both dinosaurs and innovators
So chester.website has an overarching – city-wide – view of #hyperlocal. Bring all the areas together on one site, one platform, one set of negotiated ways of behaving. Despite what bits of government feel, and despite the possible implications of what bits of government feel, if they had to choose from this kind of #hyperlocal or what I shall shortly define as hyper #hyperlocal, I’m pretty … Continue reading (the price tag of) hyper #hyperlocal
Adrian begins to describe the difference between the “traditional” concept of “digital inclusion” and a more radical one he terms “digital empowerment”. More here. I’m sure the page will continue to develop over the next few days. As I see it now, at the time of writing this post, we have, on the one side, a consumerist and rather docile end-user, conforming to globalised, even … Continue reading between #digitalinclusion and #digitalempowerment – what?
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