Hyperlocal Information

I was disappointed with Outside.in. It only pulled information for my zip code from the local paper and most of the posts were obituaries! On the left hand side of the screen is a menu with arts venues, bars and clubs, etc. Each one was void of information, only telling me that there were no venues of any sort in my area - which of course I know to be false. Even for Omaha it only listed 13 arts venues, and that included the Royals Baseball Club, an Eagles Club and a Tattoo Parlor.

I think I would enjoy Placeblogger if there were any blogs on there that were related to my area. I think it's a pretty cool concept and would help you find local blogs you may not know about otherwise.

I really like the idea of Patch and would definitely read it regularly if there were information of local interest there. To me, this is a direction that more local newspapers should be going. Our local paper is the best source of local information, but they don't put all their content on the web.

It is my experience that libraries already fill this role of providing hyperlocal information, although they don't always do it on the web. I think this would be a great fit for libraries though, as they are already in the local information business, to further carve out a niche for themselves in the information platforms of the (near) future.