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Outside.in Finds Blog, Gentrification Link
Outside.in -- a website that tracks news, conversation, gossip, and rants in 62 U.S. cities and 3,245 neighborhoods -- found a correlation between local blogs and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Outside.in founder Steve Berlin Johnson attributes the correlation to people's interest in change, according to an article in The New York Times, especially when it concerns "every little development in their neighborhoods."
Outside.in's blog aggregation technology works as a community bulletin board, where people can find news about their neighborhood or connect with other Outside.in users and bloggers that reside in their community. Since its launch in February, the site has published a top 10 list of the most blogged about neighborhoods, with Clinton Hill in Brooklyn taking the top honor. Other neighborhoods that made the list were: Harlem; Shaw in Washington; downtown Los Angeles; Newton, Mass.; and Rogers Park/North Howard in Chicago.