November 18, 2009 by
Traditionally cut along ethnic divides and railways, Chicago's 77 "community areas" are typically so different and disconnected from each other that understanding and relating them can be a complex and challenging maneuver. Firebelly knows this firsthand, working for both Humboldt Park and Wicker Park Bucktown.
Thanks to a new tool on our friend Justin Massa's nonprofit site MoveSmart.org, Chicago's neighborhoods are getting easier to research, explore and understand. The site's Neighborhood Finder provides Chicagoans with interactive maps and data so they can search the City's neighborhoods in smarter, more innovative ways. MoveSmart.org's methodologies are a positive and powerful step to helping natives and newcomers overcome the stereotypes, ignorance and prejudice held by so many regarding communities outside their own. If you dig their approach, support 'em!
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November 01, 2008 by
Some key functionality that we are adding to one of our current projects, The Queerist, is the ability to determine a users location via their IP address. This allows us to display content specific to the users location (events and bars, in this case) on the homepage of the site without requiring the user to enter any information. Having this ability opens a lot of possibilities for the web, but it requires a bit of help on your part.
The most promising method of achieving the IP location lookup is via hostIP.info, but the database is incomplete. If you have a moment, you can visit the website http://www.hostip.info/ and see if your location is correct and if not, change it. The open web thanks you.
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