Read my Knight News Challenge entry (and even vote!)

I have applied for a grant in the Knight News Challenge, a lively contest to improve the news media through digital publishing.

My idea is CityPipeline.com, a Web hub for news and information on local real estate development. CityPipeline is basically a local real estate map that you can filter, search and add information to.

For each project, the map can or would eventually include:

• stage in the development "pipline" (in planning, approved, under construction)
• new leases
  
• building sales
• city council votes
• planning commission votes
• links to news articles
• links to blog entries
• related documents
  

I have a rough prototype running at sfpipeline.com (IE or Firefox, no Safari yet), which looks like this:



It's sort of a Bloomberg terminal for local real estate, but on the Web and free.

Read all about it on the Knight News Challenge site.

If you have a few minutes, vote on the project too (click next to the stars; you have to create an account but it only takes a minute).

'Je vais et je viens'

I am finally going to France, with my wife, for my honeymoon, right now!

I solemnly swear not to post pictures here of any plated food, markets, patisseries, cafes or streetscapes. Or, uh, anything.

I have to go now because apparently I am, as of this moment, blogging during my honeymoon, which is so not awesome.

See you some time after October 25.