Adam’s Block Featured on Local San Francisco News; Aired Nationally

Adam, from www.AdamsBlock.com that was designed by Gypsy, was interviewed on December 1st by the local San Francisco’s Channel 2 news station, KTVU. You can view the full article as well as view the news segment that was aired nation wide at http://www.ktvu.com/news/18184320/detail.html. Here is an excerpt that explains what his web cam is all about.

San Francisco’s Tenderloin has long been considered one of the city’s grittier neighborhoods, but now an intersection in that area is receiving new notoriety on the internet because of a web cam set up by a local resident to stream images live on the net.

Adam Jackson, the creator of the web site, held a fundraiser at Lefty O’Doul’s Monday night to try to raise money to get a better camera to show the world what happens outside his apartment window.

The site is called Adam’s Block. It documents 24-hours-a-day the activities that take place at the corner of Ellis and Taylor streets. From Street fights to break-ins to high-speed chases, it’s a gritty dose of reality from what Jackson calls the worst neighborhood in San Francisco.

SF Gate: San Francisco Chronicle by C.W. Nevius

Front-window spy cam puts Tenderloin on the Web

The results have been pretty dramatic. In three days, adamsblock.com has had 80,000 views and 25,000 visitors, a remarkable 40 percent of whom live outside the United States.

Excerpt from:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/05/BANM14ITI9.DTL&tsp=1

Tenderloin Webcam Project Turns into Online Craze

KRON Channel 4 news segment:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=3946838001

Future Tense, Public Radio Interview by John Gordon

Web cam shines a light on a seedy street corner:
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2008/12/web-cam-shines.html