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I’ve been following the growth of hyperlocal sites – sites that focus on specific geographical areas. Fitzroyalty is focused on Fitzroy, for example, though it also includes whatever occupies my...
View ArticleFitzroyalty reloaded
Fitzroyalty is back online. Upgrading WordPress is harder than it first seems. I thought I had killed my blog. Fortunately I made all the proper backups. Backups are good. When you find yourself...
View ArticleFitzroyalty remixed
I’ve given up for the time being with the idea of upgrading WordPress to v2.3. My first attempt failed badly. So instead I’ve upgraded my theme to 3 columns, which actually achieves my overall goal –...
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You may have noticed that Fitzroyalty was offline for about 36 hours during the week. I got brave and decided to try upgrading WordPress and failed again. This time was worse than last time as one of...
View ArticleWhat’s hot in Australian web 2.0
A list of the top 100 Australian web 2.0 applications for 2008 was published last month by Ross Dawson in his blog Trends in the Living Networks. I’ve joined, used and reviewed a number of these sites...
View Articlethe current status of hyperlocal media in Australia
It’s frustrating working in social media and social networking in Australia, which is so far behind the latest developments in the US. This is partially due to population; Australian cities are...
View ArticleGeotagging for beginners with Mapufacture GeoPress
Web mapping services provider Mapufacture looks like it has a promising future as location based content grows in popularity. Mapufacture’s GeoRSS standard is endorsed by Outside.In, which aggregates...
View ArticleState of the blogosphere in Australia
Fitzroyalty is indexed in Technorati, and earlier this year I participated in their 2008 survey of bloggers about blogging – State of the blogosphere. I was one of 1079 randomly selected (or at least...
View ArticleWordPress plugins for Mozilla Geode and Google Gears Geolocation would enable...
If you’re a hyperlocal blogger or other WordPress user who publishes location based content, or are interested in publishing location based information, you may be excited by some recent developments...
View Articlehyperlocal media is a bad competitor
I love reading about economic theories and how they relate to and describe the internet and the information economy. An article I read some time ago called Bad competitors are ruining markets...
View Articlenew local content about Carlton and Fitzroy
Over the weekend I moved Fitzroyalty to a new server running php5 so I could use a lot of new WordPress plugins and tools. I think it went smoothly and hopefully readers did not even notice. I also...
View Articlethe local newspapers of the future
I have completed the initial phase of my plan to build local news sites for the inner city suburbs of Fitzroy and North Fitzroy, Carlton and North Carlton, Brunswick and East Brunswick and Collingwood...
View ArticleFormula 1 Management and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation censor...
Update 27 April 2009: I won this case – read the full story here. The flaccid corporate pricks at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) and / or Formula 1 Management (FOM) have forced Youtube to...
View ArticleMelbourne Leader lies about me and breaches my copyright
Update 17 April 2009: the Press Council has acknowledged receipt of my complaint about the Melbourne Leader and is investigating. Update 16 April 2009: I’m working on a complaint to submit to the...
View ArticleI fought Formula 1 Management and I won
I am pleased to report that I have won my copyright dispute with Formula 1 Management (FOM) over the copyright and intellectual property rights to spectator videos made at the 2009 Australian Formula 1...
View ArticleI fought News Ltd and I won
The Australian Press Council has promptly investigated the complaint I lodged about the actions of the Melbourne Leader in reporting a factual error about me and failing to attribute a photograph...
View Articlebreakfast bagel at Alimentari on Brunswick St
On a recent Sunday I met a woman called Susan at Alimentari. I needed breakfast as I had just got up, but for her it was time to work. She’s a journalism student at RMIT and we met so she could...
View Articlebig in Poland
Once my videos of the 2009 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix were reinstated by Youtube, they gained about 1,000 views each. That”s good considering they were offline when people would have been most...
View ArticleFOI on food hygiene in the City of Yarra
I find it ridiculous in the age of radical transparency being brought forth by the ubiquity of online information that data paid for and owned by citizens is kept from citizens by out of touch...
View ArticleFitzroyalty vs City of Yarra – food hygiene FOI battle round one
And so it begins. I wrote last Thursday about making an FOI application to the City of Yarra to release information about cafe and restaurant food hygiene inspections. I posted the snail mail...
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