links for 2011-07-20

The National Press Club presents the panel discussion "Up Next — Hyperlocal Coverage: Neighborhood Blogs, Community Websites, and the Future of the News" as part of its "Get It Online" series.

For example, if you have a reporter covering a huge parade, a bike tour, travelling along the coastline, taking a wine tour across the country, or you want to collect reader photos from a highway closure — really, the use cases are endless — an easy way to get interactive, live content from the field is through a Flickr map. And, you can accomplish it all from email, with no extra apps or training required.

Through Chalkboard local businesses can:

# Offer unlimited real time updates or deals to consumers within one mile of their location

# Connect with consumers through mobile devices

# Add feeds to social networks including Twitter and Facebook

# The threshold for news is lower. Misdemeanors, not just felonies, constitute news.
# Stories unravel in real time. Editors post updates as they come in rather than wait for a fully baked story.
# "Google juice" makes micro news have a macro afterlife.
# Ethical decisions are as open to community feedback as the stories themselves.
# Attachment to the community is valued more than dispassionate detachment.