Hard to find local news, hard to find public records, and you can even enter your zip code to find what is happening in your area are done superbly by EveryBlock. If you’re living in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and {Washington, DC}, then your local news are covered.
EveryBlock was independently owned for two years, but MSNBC just bought EveryBlock recently. Although EveryBlock is now owned by MSNBC, its brand will stay the same!
First look at EveryBlock’s website, it looks like any other blog’s pages, but when you click onto a city that you want to get your local news from, it gets interesting from there. When entering a city’s front page, you see a box that allows you to enter your zip code right away. When entering your zip code, if there is no news available for your area, EveryBlock offers you to sign up for email alerts, or you can choose the other option which is subscribing to an RSS feed. There are featuring events and featuring news show right below the zip code box in the front page. You can also browse news by neighborhoods. Each news has a map on the sidebar to show the story’s location. There is so much more…
EveryBlock has become my next favorite website. Before the buyout of EveryBlock, I had never heard of EveryBlock, but by browsing the Internet for news, I saw EveryBlock got purchased by MSNBC, and by exploring EveryBlock, I’ve come to like it very much. By the way, if you want to run a website like EveryBlock, you can! How? EveryBlock is offering its source code to you for free.
Vinh Nguyen
