It has nothing to do with local news or journalism -- it's a music thing. The main thing it has in common with EveryBlock is that it's fundamentally about creating structure from chaos, which is what I like to do.
> And it'd be interesting to hear what you and the other founders have been working on as well.
I'm not Adrian, but I'll answer for a small part: Adrian released a guitar album, and made http://www.soundslice.com/ (a guitar tab site, that plays tabs to Youtube videos)
I wrote some thoughts on my blog: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/
Adrian (EveryBlock founder)