Today’s links 04/04/2012

• AP agrees deal with livestreaming video platform Bambuser | Media news | Journalism.co.uk

  tags: journalism platform media live bambuser

  • “What Bambuser has allowed us to do is contact the actual person generating the live stream so we can firstly verify it but also ask all sorts of other questions to find out more about the event. Bambuser’s got the technology and the people on the ground; we can add  verification and context to aid understanding of the story.”

• BBC sets date for first Breakfast broadcast from the north | UK news | guardian.co.uk

  tags: northerner

• Hyperlocal – one every three minutes : daveharte.com

  tags: hyperlocal ahrc

  • news story published on a Hyperlocal website every 3 minutes.

     

    Here’s what I did to try and find this out.

     

     
    1. I looked at all the RSS feeds listed on Chris Taggart‘s Openly Local database of Hyperlocals.
    2. I corrected those that weren’t resolving and omitted those pointing to now-dead sites.
    3. I took out those that were feeds for a forum as they tend to include lots of ‘stuff for sale’ messages along with their replies (plus, I wasn’t really interested in ‘conversation’).
    4. I created an OPML file for the remaining 431 feeds.
    5. I created a Google Reader Bundle so that I would then have a single RSS feed.
    6. I used ifttt.com to push that feed to a new twitter account @AllHyperlocal
    7. I counted how many tweets that feed produced. I use a google spreadsheet created by Martin Hawksey (who also gave me the ‘bundle’ advice above) to produce pretty visuals and to archive the tweets.

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