{"id":3579,"date":"2009-03-09T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-30T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T05:57:06","slug":"everyblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/everyblock\/","title":{"rendered":"EveryBlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tools we&#8217;re building to find, aggregate and consume tailored, filtered and hyperlocalized information are still nascent. My motto: register for everything, see what sticks. In the last few months, I&#8217;ve been hooked to EveryBlock, which lets you dive deep via street address and zip code, or pull back for city-wide look. The amount of data that&#8217;s fine-sliced by location, neighborhood and zip code is just amazing. Beyond mentions of specific hoods in the mainstream media or blogs (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\">Yelp<\/a> restaurant reviews), what EveryBlock does really well is provide a user-friendly, easy-to-digest interface for exploring public records: every building permit, restaurant inspection, police call, zoning agenda item and more. You can hone searches from a one- to eight-block radius around a particular address. And you can set daily\/weekly email alerts, as well (I prefer a weekly update, but search via the site now and again).<\/p>\n<p>There are handful of news-y aggregators like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.placeblogger.com\/\">Placeblogger<\/a> (which I&#8217;ve not tried) and <a href=\"http:\/\/outside.in\/\">Outside.In<\/a> (which I enjoy). Much like the previously-reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/popurls-1\/\">PopUrls<\/a>, Outside.In gives you one place to go (or email\/RSS) to monitor a variety of outlets &#8212; in this case location-specific &#8220;news, views and conversations&#8221; slotted into categories like food, music, real estate. Good stuff, but a little different. With EveryBlock, you get the actual public records, which tend to provide the most interesting tidbits, for me at least. In addition to suspicious people alerts, car break-ins and violent crimes, I discovered a person on my block is intending to tear down a one-story, single-family home and build a four-story condo &#8212; yuck! (Beware: you really can spend hours with all this data.)<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"6021\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/everyblock2sm-6021.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/everyblock2sm-6021.php','popup','width=731,height=148,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/everyblock2sm-thumb-450x91-6021.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"91\" alt=\"everyblock2sm.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/form>\n<p>The only catch: EveryBlock is only available in 11 cities (as I write), but more are certainly on the way. If you&#8217;re using any similar sites\/services you love &#8212; especially those covering areas EveryBlock does not &#8212; please tell us about them in the comments below.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filtered, hyperlocal 411<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}