While many contemporary narratives about the web depict it as a kind of place-less utopia, the end of geography and boundaries, many users find that the web offers new, unique ways to reconnect ourselves to the geographic space where we live.
Sites like outside.in, placeblogger, spot.us and hyperlocal.org feature various notions of citizen-journalism – people who live in a place driving (and sometimes crafting) the stories that get told. Other projects like The Organic City have broadened their sense of hyperlocal to more kinds of stories.
Our hope is that the connecting power of Web 2.0 will be combined with the powerful connections stories can forge between people – building people’s interest and investment in local concerns, local voices and local artists.
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