Hyperlocal News Roundup
by Matt on Dec 2, 2008 in Industry
While I’m trying to piece together a post on hyperlocal blogging in big cities vs. smaller towns (have a couple different directions in mind), here are a couple pieces of hyperlocal news to pass along:
At the outside.in blog, Nina recently wrote a very detailed Getting Started with StoryMaps guide, offering all kinds of screenshots to show how to add StoryMaps to your blog. These are widgets that will display your blog archives on a map. Jog your memory by reading my old post: outside.in Launches Blogger Map Widget.
On the EveryBlock blog, Adrian Holovaty recently announced changes to EveryBlock’s interior pages that expand on their “anything that can be a link should be a link” philosophy. That means there are a lot of new pages offering incredibly granular neighborhood information. An example from the blog post is this page showing abandoned cars reported in Washington, DC. This increased filtering means bloggers can find a wide variety of local information in the cities that EveryBlock covers. If you need a refresher on what EveryBlock is and how to get your blog included, here’s my old post: Submit Your Blog to EveryBlock.com.
Your turn: What else is going on in the hyperlocal space that bloggers should know about? Tell us in the comments.
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Hey, thanks for the writeup on EveryBlock, Matt. There’s a *ton* of great data on our site, and one really cool thing is that local bloggers have started to pick up on some of it to do additional reporting. Then their blog entries get picked right back up and indexed by us.
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