William M. Hartnett

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Neighborhood mapping help from abroad. Mapping thousands of neighborhoods is hard work. So hard, in fact, that we recently outsourced a very small portion of the workload to Backyard Post’s senior Argentina-based polo correspondent.

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: We like big serifs and, no, we cannot, in fact, lie. Still coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true. And still coming.

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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY real estate-ier than before. Coming soon over that way: The amazing true story of one programmer and his true and amazing search for the world’s most ergonomically perfect input devices. Amazing. And true.

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How’s the real estate market here in South Florida? Still ever so slightly short of robust, judging by the sales data we’re feeding Backyard Post. Consider:

FAIL!

EPIC FAIL! Or, as Sholin might put it: “Oh, now that’s just a greasy 20-piece bucket of FAIL right there.” First!

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Matt Waite posed a good question in the comments to yesterday’s post about making our investment in the neighborhood boundary data that underlies Backyard Post pay off. Basically, when it comes to such detailed information, do I worry about being too small? Too micro? My thoughts on that topic sprawl ever so slightly, so better [...]

Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: Backyard Post now WAY searchier than before. Also recently posted over that way, a note about browser support. Hint: It’s time to upgrade from IE 6.

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Since we privately rolled out Backyard Post a few weeks ago, I’ve received quite a few questions about our neighborhood boundary data. As in, where we got it. That’s yet another thing about which I meant to be clearer in my introductory post, but the answer is simple enough: I made it.
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Meet the gang of dashing young gents behind Backyard Post in the latest post over at The Official Backyard Post Blog. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn an amazing fact about The King’s Academy high school graduating class of 2000.

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Friend, former colleague and beard-owner Will Sullivan reminded me of a point I meant to touch on in my big honkin’ Backyard Post introductory post. In adding that post to his world-famous Journerdism jambalaya links, Will, who was involved in the project before decamping to the STL, noted that Backyard Post is an example of [...]

I’m going to mention the word once, then not only will you never hear or see me use it again, I might actually go so far as to punch squarely in the neck anyone who insists on using the word in relation to the product I’m about to announce: Hyperlocal.
There, I said it. An utterly [...]