YourStreet Introduces News Filters

YourStreet now has news filters available.  For any location on the site you will see a drop-down menu allowing you to view Business, Crime, Entertainment, and Sports news.

So if you're in San Francisco and just want to just view entertainment news, select Entertainment from the drop-down menu and - voila! - the page reloads to just display entertainment info.  Select All News from the menu to go back to the unfiltered view.

We're still working on perfecting the filtering, so you may see a few miscategorized articles here and there.  You also will find some areas with no Crime news.  We're continually adding new sources of information and hope to have all categories of news filled in for nearly every location in the near future.

As always, let us know what you think of the filters by leaving a comment here or using the feedback form at the bottom of every page on YourStreet.

Comments

[Geoff Sakala]

Great job. I really enjoy the site. I'm publisher of a local online newspaper, some might call it a blog, but I have paid staff who edit stories so it's not really just a blog. I am always looking for ways to consume and produce more hyperlocal news. For me the most beneficial features are broad geographic coverage and deep content. That's really the question. Should you cover more places with fewer news items or fewer places with more news. I would argue that you have to have broad coverage of cities across the US to engage readers and encourage them to add content. The problem is content discovery not geographic discovery. We know now every state and city in the US. Users can add the news and neighborhoods.

[Geoff]

uh, you guys still alive?

[James Nicholson]

Hi Geoff - yes, we are still very alive and kicking. We've been keeping our heads down working on a major redesign of the YourStreet site which we will be quietly rolling out in the next week. We think this new design will engage users even more and encourage them to add content to the site. Let us know what you think!