Posted June 1st, 2009, in: 1

There’s a whole other rant in my intellectual intestines about why Twitter, as a centralized service for MicroBlogging,  is not the answer to many problems.  Hyper-Local keeps coming up.  What a nice idea.  Maybe truly Hyper-Local media will emerge via GPS-Enabled applications in the next year or three.  The fact that cameras are increasingly including geo-tags in images makes me optimistic about this idea.  That and of course the approach ubiquitous GPS-enabled phones Etc.  OK.  Great.  Maybe people will start geo-tagging tweets and the whole world will become a giant fail whale.  More on why I don’t think Twitter is the answer soon.  Let me not get side-tracked if I haven’t already.

“Hyper-Local”

Let’s not be confused.  There’s nothing Hyper about Regular-Local.  Here’s my idea.  bloggers in areas that aren’t SF, Boston or NYC need to organize.  Hosting is practically free. Search still sucks.  People need aggregation to consume local and otherwise niche content effectively.

I live in Sebastopol, CA 95472

Is there a hub for finding information pertaining to my region besides craigslist and regular old sucky search?

No.

Why not?  

Because we haven’t built one.

So what now?  

Let’s build a blog.  Let’s find local bloggers and get their permission to aggregate specific “Regular-Local” content.  I’m willing to donate my labor setting it all up, and as an “Editor,” by which I mean, a person that looks out for poisonous content like spam or extreme view-points that threaten the broader appeal of our collective efforts.  I imagine we’d set up a manifesto for what our collective values are.

Anyone interested?