Comments on: How do you define Hyperlocal?

By: Comment définissez-vous l’hyperlocal ? | Hyperblogal

Comment définissez-vous l’hyperlocal ? | Hyperblogal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:44:03 +0000

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:00:56 +0000

I posted this on your more recent post on the subject, but I wanted to make sure to share this here:

I think there’s some real merit in the distinction between hyperlocal and local. I covered this very topic back in September: http://christopherwink.com/2009/09/29/hyperlocal-news-a-definition/

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:18:39 +0000

For my website “hyperlocal” is anywhere you can easily travel by foot, bike or a car on only a few dollars of gas. So maybe a radius of 10 to 20 miles. In the country that may cover only a couple thousand people, in the city it could cover 100,000 people.

As oil gets more expensive the hyperlocal radius shrinks.

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Defining Hyperlocal : HyperlocalBlogger — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:10:43 +0000

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By: Ed Walker

Ed Walker — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:08:29 +0000

I don’t get too hung up on the term ‘hyper-local’. I think we can get confused by buzzwords.

But what I do know is that I run a website (http://www.blogpreston.co.uk) that covers Preston, Lancashire – and roughly 120,000 people live in Preston and its surrounding areas.

There are blogs underneath me that cover specific areas of Preston (http://www.ashtononribble.com), so I guess if I was ‘hyperlocal’ they are ‘microlocal’?

Then it goes down a stage further to undefined council areas/street level areas of Preston e.g. Broadgate (http://broadgateisgreat.blogspot.com/) – Broadgate is a road, but also includes the surrounding roads as locals refer to the ‘Broadgate area’.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:15:58 +0000

Thanks for the great comments, gang. Interesting thoughts so far. I’ll follow-up with another post on this topic soon…

By: Gradiva

Gradiva — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:26:28 +0000

If I hear a weird sound at night, and in the morning there’s a post on a blog explaining it (gunshots? car crash? thunder? raccoons knocking boots?), that’s my kinda hyperlocal.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:21:49 +0000

I don’t think there’s a way to put a physical size definition for hyperlocal – but rather its more about a locale that generates enough interest among people who live, work or spend time in that area.

As long as there is a community (interests, content, advertisers, etc.), there is a hyperlocal area.

By: Sass

Sass — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:37:44 +0000

I run two hyperlocal blogs, and I class them as hyperlocal as they each cover small rural towns in North-West England. The print newspapers for these two towns tend to feature news from neighbouring villages – something I try to avoid unless it’s really relevant to the town, so hopefully the sites appeal to those who want to get straight to the stuff that affects/interests them most. I would say English cities need to be broken down into postcode areas for example, to really be ‘hyper’ local.

By: Flossip

Flossip — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:13:11 +0000

I think my blog about my town of Florence, SC is a hyperlocal blog. I think neighborhood blogs are hyperlocal, and any blog dedicated to something in one town or city (Midtown lunch for example).