links for 2008-09-30
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"In which I explain the advantages of using a popular fraud-detection tool in reporting."
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Yes, please. Via Will Sullivan.
The annual fuel economy report of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tennessee. Click the picture below to play with the map for yo’ own self. Seriously.

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Bocaire Country Club in Boca Raton.
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This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Click the picture below to play with the map for yo’ own self.

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about East Ocean Avenue in Lantana.
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It’s the Lincoln Journal Star of lovely Lincoln, Nebraska in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps. Click the picture to mess around with the map for yourself.
And in Google Maps Street View:
A man of culture and taste if ever there was one. Sometimes I Rhyme Slow by Nice & Smooth:
And Common at Trinity United Church of Christ (as in Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, etc.) on new year’s eve:
I believe in the value to newspapers of physical communities, particularly at their most indivisible level, neighborhoods. (And I mean real-world neighborhoods, even when they’re made up of only 52 homes.) Howard Owens has a great new post on that topic, and Mark Potts has a nice followup. Also not to be overlooked are two posts from this summer by Steve Yelvington. Check those out right here and over here.