A week or so ago I started to notice a fairly high volume of incoming traffic from an unfamiliar URL: http://www.placeblogger.com/placeblog/hidden-city. Being the curious sort I am I followed it back and was surprised to find it is a new kind of aggregator based on location. Somehow Hidden City ended up on the list, not that I mind.

In the Placeblogger FAQ, creator Lisa Williams defines it this way:

A placeblog is an act of sustained attention to a particular place over time
It can be done by one person, a defined group of people, or in a way that's open to community contribution
It's not a newspaper, though it may contain random acts of journalism
It's about the lived experience of a place

In other words, it sounds like something that was proposed for the South Florida area a while back: a directory of local sites.

So far it's interesting, although I found the navigation a bit confusing at first, and I still don't get the purpose of the selective yellow highlighting on quotes. The site seems to be new, though, and it's a good idea.

If you have a site, do a search and see if you are listed. If not, you might want to add yourself in (or add someone else in, for that matter). At the very least, you might find a neighbor you didn't know you had.