Mr Barren is always talking about localisation, recently launching his localised search engine called Gnoos, so he’ll be happy to see a community web service that was just launched in Perth.

PerthNorg is Western Australia’s salvation. For too long we’ve been in the dark, because the local monopolistic newspaper has been dragging its clumsy feet when it has come to the Internet: for too long we’ve not had easy access to local news.

PerthNorg solves that problem in a big way. In fact it offers almost complete freedom because the news is up to us.

PerthNorg is a user empowered news site that gives citizen journalists (you!) editorial control. Every news item on PerthNorg is a submission from the Norg community by either creating it, sourcing it, ranking or commenting on it.

I’m a big fan, and I’d like to congratulate Bronwen on the launch!

If you’re a Perthite, bookmark the site and get in there and start helping with the news.