Previous version:
block
house
room
Your additions:
Personal/community localities
School
office
church
club
sports team
school sports league
school district
news relating to alma maters, former homes, homes of relatives, favorite vacation spots. _(Mel note: We did cover ex-pat news in a previous newsletter. i.e. news from places that I care about, which I think all of these describe.)
Other functional communities: (and some reading material)
book clubs
support groups
podcast listeners
professional groups
customers
Friends separated by distance
Lovers of bacon
Cat people
Civil rights activists
Fans of really bad prog rock
Guitarists
Lego builders
Swifties
Dr Who fans
online communities
etc forever
More places: (I guess this makes me think differently about local news, eh?)
island? - like Hawaii, Alaska vs. continental US
hemisphere
street
floor of building / unit of building
region (like Midwest)
tenant or apartment building
Space (and Space Weather) / University / Galaxy /
Astronomic (coronal mass ejections, meteors, solar eclipse zones)
Your Own Body / Your Uterus
Village / hamlet / metropolitan area
Geologic (areas of seismicity, water tables)
news algorithmically chosen for each individual in that room / “there are multiple places in a room where you can be, for example sitting at your desk is very different from being in your bed.”
Park
Playground
Dog Park
Chair
Campus (this can be local and not local) / this can be corporate and university-oriented
Township (very popular here in Ohio, and they don’t align with counties)
Corporate limits
“Metro area”
Voting districts
Time zones (at least in this country, this very relevant/important in rural areas which are also some of the poorest areas. Almost all time zone lines zigzag through in the middle of the country)
Regional cellular companies (again, predominantly in rural areas)
Delivery areas: in NYC, a span of blocks and in suburbs/small towns, a span of miles.
Zip codes and by extension, postal routes
Bike rentals
Ferries
Mom and pop shops
Watersheds
Microregion
Street
Territory
Condominium association
Homeowners association
Property lot
School district
Voting district
Congressional district.
Federal court circuit.
Census districts: http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/
Cachement area/basin
Municipal transit area
MSA (metropolitan statistical area)
State house district
State senate district
Police district
City council district
ANC (for DC)
Area Code
G8
g7
Census tract
Block group
Gated community
Commerical cooridor
Parrish
Time: (We did cover time in a previous newsletter.)
Chronologic (date lines for celebrating new year)
past
present
futurish
future
Eons ago
Millenia ago
Centuries ago
Decades ago
Years ago
Months ago
Weeks ago
Days ago
Yesterday
Today
Hours ago
Minutes ago
Seconds ago
Right now
Seconds from now
Minutes from now
Hours from now
Tomorrow
Days from now
Weeks from now
Months from now
Years from now
Decades from now
Centuries from now
Millenia from now
Eons from now
Not sure where to place these:
GPS
Geopolitic (historic and current: the relationship between former colonies/colonizers affects their news distribution; areas with high immigrant populations report different kinds of news, eg I’m currently in Germany, where news about the Turkish elections broke several hours before I received a NYT alert about it)
Languages
Social Feed
Other thoughts:
You might browse the Getty Geographical thesaurus for more ideas: Also, you might narrow even further to “corner” or “surface” and then to “body” since every body (HUR HUR) is unique.
Thank you to Evan, Machiko Yasuda, Tod Robbins, Marilyn Geewax, Paulus Van Horn, Abby Keel, Meg Cramer, Andria Krewson, JKroll, John Sepulvado, Dorothy Levitt, Gabe Isman, Jim Person, DBurt, Christine Eriksen, Ceddacosco, Andrew Losowsky, Anders, Jeffrey Patkinson, Angela Combest, Martha Garvey, Zach Rosen, Maayan Plaut, Kale Davis, Michelle Holshue, Ben Thomas Paine, Kitty Hannah, Renee P. T., Brian Greenberg, Heidi59, Stephanie Pottinger, Andrew Maier, Shaproo, Betsy O’Donovan, Melissa Byrne, Laura Isensee and Amanda McLoughlin for their contributions.
What should we tackle next?