A trio of young design-geeks, immigrants to Providence, have taken it upon themselves to document the impact of the foreclosure crisis in Providence, one boarded-up house at a time. Their site, ForgottenProvidence, is a mashup of user-generated photo content, property data, and Zillow real estate data. Though it has what would be considered a sampling [...]

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This caught my eye when it turned up in my alumni newspaper. Dan Schultz’s idea for combining hyperlocal and traditional journalism sources isn’t unique, but the Knight Ridder Foundation’s initiative to find and seed fund the next generation in news is.
Assembled quotes from Carnegie Mellon Today
Schultz brainstorms with his classmate Ian Anderson to develop an [...]

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 Some fellow travellers and I have launched Mashable City, described briefly below. If Hackable City is about claiming our identity in a community, the convergent Mashable City is about creatively using information about ourselves, our relationships, and our environments to give us and others a lens on that community.
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