Outside.in tracks over 3,000 US neighborhoods for geotagged blog posts and placebloggers. They have aggregated a lot of interesting data, and recently released a taste of this information back to the public. They released a report called Inside America’s Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods.

I was surprised to find that Newton, MA (a small, predominantly-Jewish community in Massachusetts which was one town over from where I grew up) ranked above tech centers like Potrero Hill, SF. Their brief description of Newton was pretty entertaining:

Comprised of 13 villages that form a bedroom community of nearby Boston. Home to the various campuses of Boston College, Newton has graced the top of the FBI’s annual “Safest City” study for the last five years.

That’s not the Newton I remember. When I think of Newton, I think of two things: they have the closest Mac store to my hometown and they have a great art-house cinema.