Idea Lab

Partnerships to Watch (and a Crowdsourcing Project I'm Envying)

by Amanda Hickman
2009 Knight News Challenge Winner

A small local website from Brooklyn has partnered with NBC to build neighborhood pages for a handful of NBC markets. I haven't followed Outside.in for more than stoop sales (which is New Yorkerese for garage sales or yard sales since most New Yorkers have neither yards nor garages), but it looks like they've taken up EveryBlock's approach to local news aggregation as well, though they want posts explicitly geo-tagged for their maps. Speaking of EveryBlock, they recently announced that they're working with the New York Times to track Times reporting on political districts. Presumably they'll be taking advantage of the...

• January 29, 2009
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Geotagged News and Drupal: Why Wait?

by Benjamin Melançon
2007 Knight News Challenge Winner

A week or so ago Dan Schultz posted here about the potential for geotagging. Technically, the basics of geotagging is coming along: the Drupal shop Development Seed announced today "We Will Geocode Anything," using a news-tagging service and a Python script to add locations to news stories. (This is part of their larger project Managing News.) Dan, however, outlined a list of things he needed for geotagging news to be exciting. A commenter on his blog reiterated that the ability to geographically tag things by region or a shape drawn on the map (and defined by multiple pairs of coordinates)...

• November 29, 2007
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