Mayhem on the Boulevard

I found this link in the morning's press packet, of all places, and now it's my favorite local website. www.10sboulevard chronicles the news happening in a small area around the epicenter of 10 S. Boulevard, and it's all told with the urgency and blaring headlines of a tabloid supermarket rag, headlines emblazoned over gory photos of car wrecks and crime.

From their balcony, the webmasters seem to have front row seats to dozens of car wrecks, break-ins, vandalisms, drunks parking crazy, alley cats lost and found, and they manage to get photographs of it all. They even mounted a webcam on the balcony and actually recorded a fender bender on the Boulevard as it happened. These guys are clever with graphics, which adds an element of realism, like their crime maps. Is it really that bad on South Boulevard? There's even spectacular rainbows over the Museum District which they photograph and headline like it's an alien invasion.

This is the future of journalism. Every little geographic plot will have its own web coverage, recording every little thing that happens as if it's the front page of the NY Times. Too bad I can't do that for my block, but there's less anonymity in the suburbs, and way fewer car wrecks.