Adrian Holovaty writes at the Everyblock blog and MediaShift Idea Lab about new Everyblock "special reports." The idea is to take news that doesn't necessarily fit elsewhere and "geocode it" and place it into local news searches. (Recall Everyblock is a hyperlocal news site for Chicago, New York and San Francisco.)

The first such report geocodes locations in a recent FBI bribery report. Good stuff. The sad part is this is "just good journalism" but clearly we need a specialty site to do this sort of work. Perhaps in time this will be standard fare for local news. No word on tech for this operation.