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  • Star News “Zvents”

    It looks like the Star News, amidst of raft of other online changes, has rolled out a new local event platform, something called “Zvents” that aggregates, locates, and organizes local goings-on. Looks pretty nice.
    I’ve been trying to get excited about eventful.com for the GP and for some software moonlighting I do. But the eventful […]

  • Find Your Farmers : 4 Best Web Tools to Help You Eat Local

    A Quick and Dirty Guide to Sourcing Local and Seasonal Eats Via the Web

    You’ve heard it—possibly ad nauseum by now—all the different ways to eat or buy locally grown seasonal food. At the risk of offending those that have been “eating green and local” for years, here’s a quick hit list of the four best […]

  • Editor’s note: Search hits for the last few days

    Hi all - Thought you might want to see the list of search terms that surfers have used to get to the GP

    Today
    The Gourmet Market wilmington nc 4
    CSA Wilmington, NC 3
    downtown wilmington nc+death 2
    Eco-Friendly companies Wilmington NC 1
    where can I masturbate ? 1
    judge jan 1 2008 wilmington 1
    sin sin wilmington 1
    freecycle wilmington nc 1
    wilmington nc local food 1
    history of wilmington, nc street names 1
    barbara westwood 1
    starnewsonline.com […]

  • More Fun with Maps

    The Star-News is now offering an interactive crime map (currently in beta testing), so fearful and paranoid Wilmingtonians can see where crimes have been committed in the last 30 days. Hey, is that a breaking and entering in my neighborhood? Better get a dog. Is that a bomb threat down the road? Better call Homeland […]

  • Wilmington’s most wanted maps

    Is this creepy? It seems useful for finding out if your neighbors are perps, but not for “doing something about it.”
    See city’s wanted online

    ….And now you may be able to do something about it.
    The Star-News unveils a new interactive map and database today that you can use to see who’s wanted on warrants and other […]

  • Citizen journalism at PBS’s Idea Lab

    A great-looking PBS project to promote citizen journalism, to discuss practices and tools.

    MediaShift Idea Lab is a group weblog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each author won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to blog on a topic related to […]

  • Wilmington Freecycle

    I’ve been checking out a local/national service after hearing an interview with one of the founders on netsquared: freecycle.org is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.”
    The stuff changing hands is interesting. So is the dialect that springs up around the quick […]

  • Wilmington News Wire

    Wilmington Wire
    Copyright 2008, Topix
    Comprehensive News Feed for Wilmington, NC.

    McCain makes first NC visit in several months
    … Carolina in several months. McCain will hold a town hall-style event Monday at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington. The 2,000 free tickets to the event were gone within 45 minutes when they were available Saturday at New […]

  • Local podcasts

    Looks like WHQR has begun to publish subscriptions to podcasts of its content

    WHQR On Demand Jukebox

    That’s great! I was actually looking around for the Front Porch podcast that the Star News does, featuring Si Cantwell and News Director Catherine Welch. Had a little trouble searching for those on the Star News site, and don’t see […]