OpenPlans: EveryBlock and OpenBlock (and something new)

The OpenPlans blog reports on the abrupt shutdown of EveryBlock, a popular "hyperlocal" news site run by NBC (and which was initially based on open source code). "What we lost today was a powerful (closed) engine for gathering data from many different sources and making sense of it," OpenPlans says, adding that it hopes the EveryBlock shutdown will reignite interest in the open source fork of the original codebase, OpenBlock. Others have commented on the sudden shutdown as well, including Mozilla OpenNews, which said the site "exemplified new approaches" to journalism.

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