I got pretty excited when I saw Gina Trapani's  post today on Lifehacker  about a new local-data aggregator, outside.in.  (Not, sadly, about improving public spaces and parks in India. But a creative way of using the top level domain!)  Basically, it's a completely user-implemented site of connecting blogs to zipcodes, with a little bit of visualization via Google Maps. Once a zipcode has some blogs connected to it, you can dial the zipcode in and quickly get an overview of the local blogposts. Not a terribly new idea, but a nice layout. None of my East Bay neighborhoods had much of anythign going on, but for the neighborhoods where some blogs have already been connected, it's an interesting slice of life. Check out my old hood of 10025.

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