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EveryBlock works like a news feed for your neighborhood.  It gives you daily local information like business reviews, restaurant inspections, news, classified listings, etc.  It’s all based on neighborhood or zip code so you really know what’s going on in your specific neighborhood.  All of the news is listed as it is gathered by day.  They grab relevant content from Flickr, Craigslist, Yelp, and local newspapers and blogs and classify it by neighborhood.  Did I mention EveryBlock is only currently covering NYC, SF, and Chicago?  Here’s my screencast tour of EveryBlock:

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RSS is something that most people hear or see on a daily basis. Everyone should know what RSS is and how it can help you to aggregate all of the content you find on the Websites you visit every day into one place. (Yes, Mom, I’m talking to you.) RSS means Really Simple Syndication. That basically means that RSS gives you a really easy way to syndicate all of your favorite Web content into one place. This magical place is called a feed reader. A feed reader is where all of your content is sent so you can read it later.

I understand that most people reading this site know what RSS, feed readers, and that little orange button you see on almost every Website out there is. If so, this screencast isn’t for you. For those of you who hear RSS thrown around and secretly want to click on that little orange button, but really have no clue what it is, then you may want to take the next three minutes to see how non-scary it all is. Here’s my screencast explanation of RSS:

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