"[T]he trouble is, for many people, local news is boring and not relevant to them. And hyper-local (aka, local-local) is even more so. This is especially so for people who don’t have strong ties to the community in which they live."

"Journalism has several subdisciplines — photography, information graphics, video. I advocate that computer programming should be another one of those subdisciplines."

Chris Vallance talks to the Everyblock team about Boris Johnson’s plan to introduce crime mapping to London.

Adrian Holovaty talks about Everyblock at Where 2.0

Adrian Holovaty encourages "roll your own maps" at Where 2.0 Web designers resist having to use templates from software providers (e.g. blogging templates from Wordpress), why should maps be treated differently?

"The two objectives: (1) Get more datasets for EveryBlock so it can be a better Web site (2) Convince governments to share that data with everyone, not just us"

"[In] June 2009, when the company’s Knight grant money runs out … Everyblock will contribute its code and documentation to the public as open source."

"On our new feed customization pages … you can specify exactly which types of news you’d like to appear in your feed. So, for example, if you live in a restaurant-heavy part of town and don’t want to get overwhelmed with business reviews from Yelp, just

EveryBlock remains at the mercy of what details police departments release. … [Adrian] Holovaty [says] that his four-person team manually checks every listing to ensure its accuracy. "[W]e want to redefine news"

Brilliant interview with Adrian Holovaty about Everybock. Looks at some examples of how data reveals stories, plus some more on how it all works, plus how public data and news geotagging needs to be standardised.

It’s with mixed feelings that I announce the end of one of my projects, chicagocrime.org. …"

"Unlike most newspaper products, [Everyblock] seems to be designed to let the consumer make the judgment of what’s news."

Fred Wilson: "Techcrunch calls outside.in a competitor of EveryBlock. I think collaborator is more like it. It’s going to take more than one company to rebuild the local newspaper from the ground up."

Adrian Holovaty is leaving the Washington Post to found a hyperlocal news startup, EveryBlock.