While we're posting free commercials for happening dot coms, we should mention the debut of the very cool and very locally focused EveryBlock service here in Seattle -- here's the EveryBlock Seattle Capitol Hill page. On it, you'll find news, and fun items scraped from various public databases like the most recent 911 reports, construction permits, and, personal fave, health inspections (be careful with these -- some will put you off food for a week).
None of the content is unique to EveryBlock -- you can find this same info spread across the Internets -- but its value is in cobbling it all together and eventually, assume, learning how to bubble up the most important stuff so you don't have to dig through boring reports about the 15th Ave 7-11's lack of adequate hand-washing facilities. You'll even find a few posts from good ol' CHS in the mix -- though, it seems EveryBlock's fancy algorithm's chooses appropriate content by looking for posts with addresses in the text. So, if EB takes off, expect a lot of 432 15th Ave E, Seattle WA 98112 and 219 Broadway E Ste 17, Seattle WA 98102 type mentions in our posts. Kind of awkward to read, though, no?
