Everyblock, Hyperlocal Search and the Likely Future of Journalism

January 24, 2008
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Everyblock launched 1/23, one year to the day that the domain was registered, just one of a great many signs that indicate that Everyblock has a well defined plan and clear course of action. It’s an *extremely* impressive site on many levels and mirrors some ideas I’ve had on my own.

This is one of those rare moments on this blog where I must admit that I didn’t dig deep enough - I should have made this connection a few years ago as all I needed to see was in front of me. I’ve poked around with the chicagocrime.org site numerous times, somehow I never dug into who was behind the the site or what else they were up to.

Founder Adrian Hovolaty in this interview has a picture that says “Getting structured data is half the battle.” That actually might be an understatement of the importance of a topic few in the web industry truly understand, I often feel my financial services beliefs which were rooted deeply in data models and data integrity at BlackRock are viewed as an alien creature in the Internet space. You’ve seen me write about this strategy issue in the past.

I look forward to meeting this fascinating group of folks, learning more about Everyblock and telling you all about it shortly.

Good luck gentlemen!


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    1. Everyblock.com: Big step for “citizen journalism” - The Chicago Methods Reporter on January 24th, 2008 12:54 pm

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