The 2006 Knight-Batten Awards given by J-Lab are out.  All are worth looking at, but one caught our eye, one of the "Niche News" awards in the "Notable Entries" category.  Clearly, a lot of legwork on the streets of Boston went into this well-designed project.  Now the only question is: Who will keep it updated and how?

bostonchinatown.org
Emerson College Journalism (Boston, MA)

"Quintessential visualization of civic mapping ... Tell us more about these people."
 -2006 Knight-Batten Advisory Board Judges

Sixteen Emerson journalism graduate students put in a combined 500 hours of original reporting to develop this web chart. The chart displays connections between more than 100 newsmakers, organization leaders and activists in Boston’s Chinatown based on who talks with whom about local news. The map also acts as a directory with personal profiles available to help people connect.