Wednesday night linkfest

Lots more where this came from on the link blog:

EveryBlock launched (Adrian Holovaty)

Adrian leaves the WP with a Knight grant in his pocket and gives us this, an interesting aggregation of local content in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. You have to believe there will be a powerful API with this…

Getting smart about news podcasts (Amy Gahran)

If you are producing a news podcast or considering one, there are great suggestions here to help do it better. The most important (and simplest): A blog with show notes and links to the full stories on your website.

Sam’s note and the road to hell (Scott Anderson)

Scott offers some interesting background for Sam Zell’s already-famous note instructing Tribune’s newsrooms to remove content filters and expose employees to “the dangers of YouTube and Facebook.”

Who wants newspapers in a society that no longer bothers with news? (Roy Greenslade)

Ouch.