Chugging away quietly in the background since late summer has been a new development blog for Center projects, available at http://dev-civic.media.mit.edu. The blog features a more technical discussion of project plans, hopes, benchmarks, and solicitations for advice—in contrast to the outward facing posts at civic.mit.edu and the primetime posts at the PBS MediaShift blog.

We’re making the dev blog more public now so that you can contribute your comments on our work at an earlier stage—and also because at MIT we can’t help but show what’s under the hood.

So it’s where the geekiest of us can explore the backend of work at the Center…because who wouldn’t want to see Josh and Jeff proving for their mapping research that you can create your own geolocated imagery for less than $100?