Local News

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/mobile_social_networks_and_apps_local_information_landscape

Why All Local News Aggregators Seem Destined to Fail
Most local news is an confusing mess; mashing it all into one place doesn't solve that problem
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27081/

Good one!
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/19/qa-aggregation-and-the-future-of-local-news/

http://www.dreamingphone.com/

http://www.surefiresocial.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

http://www.xmlnews.org/

1 aggregate local content
2 publish API, platform

http://www.topix.com/city/dublin-ca

http://dublin.patch.com/ (editor)

http://www.newsqast.net/