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Friday, February 1, 2008

Know Thy Neighbors' Vote: FundRace 2008

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It is the dawn of a new era in internet stalking: The Huffington Post has just released a newly-updated version of FundRace 2008, an application through which one can search to whom and how much voters have donated. And oh sweet baby Jesus, the database is, in fact, searchable by name. Friday afternoon has been effectively shot to hell.
· FundRace 2008


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Thursday, January 24, 2008

New Mapping App: EveryBlock Tracks Everything

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Introducing EveryBlock, the latest ingenue on the mapping game scene. The idea— and it's a noble one— is that one may search for nabes according to name, address, or zip code; EveryBlock creates a newsfeed of mashed-up data for that 'hood. Recent resto inspections, crime reports, and— get this— Craigslist "Missed Connections" posts are only some of what might find while tooling around the 'hood. Given our recent obsession with North Beach (and EveryBlock's collection of building permit and zoning item agendas) we searched the nabe to some avail: Tonight's Peskin performance comes up zero, but there are a hell of a lot of building permits scattered about the nabe. Hmmm . . .
· EveryBlock SF [EveryBlock]
· Cool New Thing: EveryBlock's Neighborhood Newsfeeds [Curbed]


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Monday, January 14, 2008

Bubble Trouble, The Map

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Have a peek at the soon-to-be released Triple Bubble Trouble map by Property Shark, as updated through the end of 2007. The good times go-to guide tracks sales volume, average sales price, and foreclosure changes. Judging by this map, San Francisco is luxuriating in a nice, long bubble bath. Nabes such as Upper Market, the Castro, and Noe (for example) are trapped beneath what the Shark calls "Triple Bubble Trouble": Prices and sales figures have dropped, while foreclosures have risen. SoMa and its environs, along with most of the rest of the city, has "Double Bubble Trouble;" prices have dropped, but so have sales. And here we thought we were dealing with chewing gum.


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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Look! Another Neighborhood: MISO

MISO%20copy.jpgOur readers love to throw down over nabes— last week proved no exception as we tussled over an area that some considered the Mission, and others felt ventures more into Potrero Hill territory. Naming and renaming the smallest of enclaves proves a veritable sport; obsessive compulsive cartographers compete relentlessly to find and identify the most obscure, ambiguous areas of the city. As SFist reports today, local city guide/ cab rag TODO has committed what just might be the worst foul: MISO. What is MISO, pray tell? According to this map, it occupies a couple of blocks between the Mission and SoMa. Are 14th and 15th streets going to stand for this? Hell, no! As for the question regarding the area between the Mission and P Hill, an SFist reader lends an idea: Mitrero. Now how about that one?
· MISO Confused [SFist]
· Face Off: Coffee Bar Favored in Bout Against Starbucks [Curbed SF]

[Map courtesy TODO, reprinted by SFist, cribbed and adulterated by us, natch.]


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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hooked on a Feeling: San Francisco Emotion Map

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[Ah, the perils of biomapping. Good times courtesy biomapping.net (and somebody in the Mission)]

Boing Boing's Joel Johnson alerted us to the "San Francisco Emotion Map," one of several similar charts created by self-described artist, lecturer, designer and cultural activist Christian Nold. After rigging participants with a contraption that monitors their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)— an indicator of a person's emotional response to a given geographic place— Nold sends them on their merry way. Data culled from the device is analyzed and combined to form a map that tells it like it really is (or at least, how it feels). It takes a brave man to track the psychic states of 99 San Franciscans, but that's exactly what Nold did over a series of 5 workshops held back in April at Southern Exposure gallery: teams of biomappers combed through San Francisco, recording their adventures both biologically and with written notations (as seen above). Our take? Nold should've held out for the Folsom Street Fair.
· Pop!Tech Notes: Christian Nold and Emotional Mapping of Cities [Boing Boing]
· biomaping.net [website]
· San Francisco Emotion Map: printed version [download]
· Google Earth KMZ file and raw data [download]


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