Holovaty

The EveryBlock project began in 2007, after web developer and journalist Adrien Holovaty won the annual Knight Foundation News Challenge, a contest that awards grants to digital innovators committed to improving news distribution at the community level.

MSNBC.com Acquires EveryBlock (Blog for Democracy) 2009

As Holovaty continually points out, we are just scratching the surface of what is possible with the data underlying much of journalism — data that would be a lot easier to remix and mashup and display in different and interesting ways if newspapers identified and tagged and indexed that data when stories were being written, instead of trying to do those things retroactively.

The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

Holovaty and EveryBlock designer Wilson Miner are both alumni of the Rob Curley era at Lawrence.com, where Holovaty co-created Django, a popular open-source Python development framework.

Strange Attractor » 2008 » January 2009

I ssupect that EveryBlocks were helped greatly in this task by being founded by Adrian Holovaty who built one of the very first Google Maps mashups Chicagocrime.org.

Local Websites to Replace Newspapers? 2009

Might be worth talking with people like Rob Curley and Adrian Holovaty.

Scripting News for 3/26/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

So if you go to the wonderful site EveryBlock, funded by the Knight Foundation, founded by Adrian Holovaty — basically, you enter in your address in a two- or four-block radius.

Lab Book Club: Some online lessons from the (fairly) recent past » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

In August MSNBC. com bought EveryBlock. com, which was founded by Adrian Holovaty, a rising star in Web-journalism circles.

Peytonplace.com 2009

Adrian Holovaty and others do impressive computer-assisted aggregations and presentations of data on the Web, but they do not do data analysis or investigative work or what has been known as computer-assisted reporting.

The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

When the data that is already being collected is freed up, projects like this a Holovaty production all of a sudden start to become not just possible but almost easy to generate.

The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

Unfortunately, this is the exception rather than the rule the Washington Post had an interesting open-source effort called Post Remix many years ago — when the ultra-creative Adrian Holovaty worked there — but none of the ideas went anywhere.

Papers: more creativity please » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009