Small Values of Cool (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I was well aware that Adrian Holovaty is a very big name in the Python world. He's one of the two original developers of Django (my personal favorite web-app development...
Recovering Journalist (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
... around them. They may be clicking from your site to smart new computational journalism sites like Adrian Holovaty's EveryBlock , which is grabbing information from databases, news sources and other places and mashing it up with maps and other tools to provide fascinating new ways to look at city life. Or they may be clicking to Outside.In , which automatically culls local information...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Phillyist reader Adrian Holovaty tipped us off to EveryBlock Philadelphia . They aggregate City Council actions, restaurant inspections, crimes and other useful data and make it searchable by address, ZIP, neighborhood or even Council District. It's a great resource for those of us looking to move elsewhere in the city limits or just trying to stay informed about our surroundings. The...
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Adrian Holovaty's hyperlocal news/local events site EveryBlock adds Philadelphia, PA and Charlotte, NC to the previous list of Chicago, New York and San Francisco. Among the data sources are "geocoded" minutes/agendas of local meetings and for Charlotte, new additions to the library. - EveryBlock blog
NewAssignment.Net (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
... scope to the popular Google mashup chicagocrime.org , which was created by EveryBlock team leader Adrian Holovaty. While the site is a resource for both local citizens and journalists alike, it does not claim to be a city directory. “We focus on news, as opposed to static data. On EveryBlock, you’ll find a list of recent restaurant inspections near you, but you won’t find a list of...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Thom Yorke Gets ‘Nude’ Last month, Radiohead stopped accepting fan-generated remixes of their song “Nude” at radioheadremix.com . Of the 2,254 submissions, the top 10 fan favorites are posted on the home page, but the most inventive tracks are buried deep in the site, from a classical-string-quartet version (number 57) to a horn-heavy reggae-dub experiment (771). Our favorite comes from Adrian...
Music News (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Thom Yorke Gets ‘Nude’ Last month, Radiohead stopped accepting fan-generated remixes of their song “Nude” at radioheadremix.com . Of the 2,254 submissions, the top 10 fan favorites are posted on the home page, but the most inventive tracks are buried deep in the site, from a classical-string-quartet version (number 57) to a horn-heavy reggae-dub experiment (771). Our favorite comes from Adrian...
Pods and Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
We went a bit mashup crazy this week but I think it worked! On this week's pods and blogs we featured: Steve Johnson of the Chicago Tribune spoke about the changing media there. Adrian Holovaty spoke about hyperlocal news and Everyblock Author of The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson spoke about John Snow and his 1850's use of mapping to fight Cholera Matthew Cashmore on Mashed08 Mr Eugenides...
Andrew Channels Dexter Pinion (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
I just read, courtesy of Simon, a great article at the Guardian covering a presentation that Adrian Holovaty gave there last week. Strangely enough I was talking about this with a colleague this very afternoon. My thesis was that data is generated by applications but should be considered independent of them. Treat your data carefully and [...]
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Adrian Holovaty writes at the Everyblock blog and MediaShift Idea Lab about new Everyblock "special reports." The idea is to take news that doesn't necessarily fit elsewhere and "geocode it" and place it into local news searches. (Recall Everyblock is a hyperlocal news site for Chicago, New York and San Francisco.) The first such report geocodes locations in a recent FBI bribery report....
