InBerkeley

Sites like InBerkeley are sometimes called hyperlocal, because they focus on a very local geography and very local issues and events. But I’m spotting a number of developments that truly put the hyper in hyperlocal.

News21, a Carnegie Knight venture on innovation in news, and UC Berkeley J-School students have launched an initiative to cover the heck out of one intersection — Telegraph and 51st Street. Here’s the idea:

We’re building an interactive, 360-degree panorama of the intersection, with tons of stories about history, crime, traffic, and anything else we discover.

You can see some of the results in the Twitter-like messages they provide at RightNowOn51st.

Not quite as local, but highly specialized is the Twitter feed for SeenOnTheBus. It is precisely things seen on the bus in Portland, Oregon (H/T for SeenOnTheBus to Fritinancy). There’s something poetic about these small observations on a Portland bus.

Both RightNowOn51st and SeenOnTheBus would translate wonderfully to InBerkeley. It will all come in time.

Lance Knobel Hyperlocal