Comments on: The Challenge of Hyperlocal News Online http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/the-challenge-of-hyperlocal-news-online.html Good Ideas Report Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:57:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: follower http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/the-challenge-of-hyperlocal-news-online.html/comment-page-1#comment-255273 follower Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:31:08 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=31325#comment-255273 "Many of the sites draw on publicly available information like crime reports or restraurant health code violations " I was excited to read this, but it appears the only site in the bunch that gathers crime reports and restaurant health code violations is EveryBlock. Outside.in and Placeblogger look to be blog collectors, and Patch is sort of a traditional media/reporting approach, just on a local level. Is there something I'm missing? “Many of the sites draw on publicly available information like crime reports or restraurant health code violations ”

I was excited to read this, but it appears the only site in the bunch that gathers crime reports and restaurant health code violations is EveryBlock. Outside.in and Placeblogger look to be blog collectors, and Patch is sort of a traditional media/reporting approach, just on a local level. Is there something I’m missing?

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