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Guardian Local project launches with Leeds blog: a new experiment in local journalism and community coverage has launched today.

Several few weeks ago the Guardian introduced the beatbloggers for the Local project and wrote at the time that the Local project is a small-scale community approach to local news-gathering, and will focus on the three politically engaged cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds.

This week they are launching the Leeds blog; the first in the series of local blogs which you’ll see appearing over the coming weeks. Run and curated by beatblogger John Baron, the Leeds blog will cover many aspects of the city in a fresh way; aiming to explore new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of reporting, collaborative engagement with local communities, organisations and groups and aggregation.

I really hope this takes-off and becomes the success it deserves to be, and will be reading as often as possib…

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Lets face it, you can’t ignore Twitter – its everywhere these days. Rather than me banging-on about how Twitter works or why you should follow a pidgeon, Big Ben or Stephen Fry, I thought I would briefly show you some stats from our website.

There’s a few of us here at ICM that tweet regularly; some for gaining knowledge and information, some to network and some just to have a laugh.

In terms of driving traffic back to the ICM website in numbers, Twitter is fairly average, but as the graphic below shows, visitors from Twitter spend more time with us and view more pages (this is a snapshot from a single day):

I guess its because Twitter users are already in the process of ‘reading’ and taking in information.

Every day Twitter is starting to feel like less of a passing craze and is becoming more of a tool, I suppose only time will tell how powerful a tool it may become…

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