Thanks for the mention; this might be of interest in terms of collaborative partners... the Church of England.

Who own the highest roof space in any medieval village in England; or indeed, elsewhere.

The also run the parish magazine; full of 'hyper-local' advertisers.

I spoke briefly about it at the Connecting Communities conference in Salford, UK, last week at the BBC College of Journalism gig.

Here's one take on the conversation... http://richardjonesjournalist.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/bbc-connecting-communities-conference/

For the Church of England in the Diocese Of Norwich are delivering rural broadband; one spire to the next... clock the network map that produces... www.wispire.co.uk and the one our current collaboration with www.aboutmyarea.co.uk and Google Maps does... https://beta.addiply.com/network and I'm *really* hoping we can address both local media sustainability *and* connectivity through collaboration...

best etc