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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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Between 9am on Friday 14th Jan and 9am on Saturday 15th Jan illustrator Johanna Basford worked her way through 13 pens as she illustrated 266 tweets from her Twitter followers.

With her blank artboard under the scrutiny of a live webcam, Johanna illustrated whatever a Twitter user suggested with the hashtag #twitterpicture.

Random suggestions such as ‘God is not a slotmachine’, ‘a monkey with a walking stick and a beard’, ‘a transistor radio wearing ear-muffs’ and ‘the forth rail bridge with a racing dinghy sailing underneath it’ all made the cut and were included in the final image.

Amazingly my own suggestion (I’d only known about the Twitterpicture for an hour or two at this point) made the cut: ‘a self-portrait of you illustrating the #twitterpicture’.

Here’s the end-result:

And here’s a link to a larger versi…

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