Outside.in offers blogs free story maps

A month or so ago, Outside.in launched a toolkit for neighborhood bloggers to help them geo-tag their posts. And now the place-based aggregation site has debuted an embeddable map that plots a blog’s most recent stories by location — and its free for blogs to embed on their own sites. Nifty.

Neighborhood blogs are becoming more and more attractive for technology and media companies as well as advertisers, so I think we’ll see a lot more tools and services offered to them in the months to come. (Full disclosure: During the toolkit’s beta, I collaborated with Outside.in for a personal neighborhood news venture involving my wife and I. More about that soon.)