Draw out the area you're interested in following instead of being limited to the official neighborhoods.

With some design tweaks and a new listing for libraries. I guess I'm going to have to start sending Adrian weekly shipments of beer and smoked salmon to get Seattle on the list.

Launching a Chicago edition next month that will expand beyond just politics.

Puts your address at the center of a 1000 foot radius of news happening around you. This'll have to do until Everyblock comes to Seattle, I guess.

Really interesting way to dig into big, one-off stories. Love the way the map widget works.

San Francisco, don't even think about it

Paul Smith, Everyblock dev, talks about one of the most-asked questions: why they decided to roll their own map platform instead of use a third party like Microsoft, Yahoo or Google

Users report traffic accidents, which get collated by location. Smart.

I'm actually coming out on top, hope my landlord doesn't find this

Local news finally gets done right

Looks great, launches this afternoon

Now you have an API to query against that will return neighborhood geodata. Rad.

Aiming at the Craigslist demographic - best of luck with that one

"It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein. It’s a fad term for building sites enhanced with granular databases and user-generated content."

Only covers DC (obviously) but a really slick interface for all kinds of local data

Huh? The same IBS that runs all of those NBC local affiliate websites? NBC, as in the last three letters of MSNBC? Rex, WTF, yo?

This is fantastic, he'll do great things with that!

Everyblock will focus on hyperlocal, it sounds like

"What I want from my local newspaper"

Aims to compete with bigger players (Google, Yahoo) by being hyper focused and knowledgeable about the community. Not a bad model for newspapers.

Or, from the local section of your national news site...

Looks like this is finally live. I'd like to see better integration with the rest of the site, but this is an obvious future for newspapers. Looks great.

On the demise of Backfence

"I'll start reading my "local" newspaper again when it covers my block." I have a lot of problems with this "theory" but the idea of news that is relevant to people's lives is powerful

Wicked cool demographics/google maps mashup

Steve Johnson's new hyperlocalaggregator thingie

Gothamist gets all hyperlocal on your ass

Cool new Craigslist/Google maps mashup. Better searching than the Housing Maps mashup