Shared listing of coffee shops (or anything) in Denver (or anywhere)

An interesting idea here from Mile High Buzz for the use of Forms and Spreadsheets in Google Docs - gathering key information about local shops... Coffee shops in the Denver area in this case... A form is used to allow people to put data into this spreadsheet and then the spreadsheet is published so anyone can see it. This is a great sample that can be created from scratch in about 5 minutes. (Click here to create your own form now)

Site:	Mile High Buzz
Page/Post:	Coffee House Hours survey
Spreadsheet:	Denver's Coffee House Hours

$2 Billion in Investments for Peoria Illinois

Looks like the government of the City of Peoria, IL has begun to use a public blog to share data and information about the city. In particular, there is a post which uses a spreadsheet to outline $2 Billion dollars of investments made, organized in three different ways. While we didn't confirm the source of this blog or the data itself, the profile certainly looks valid... and even if it isn't valid, I figured the idea was good enough to share.

Site:	City of Peoria Economic Development
Page/Post:	$2 Billion in Investment
Spreadsheet:	$2 Billion Invested Spreadsheet

Bike Race Results

In their own words: "Bike Monkey is a growing advocacy group in Sonoma County that aims to utilize cycling as a means of benefiting the community in a variety of ways."... They used a spreadsheet to show the results of a bike race, which looks lke a good template for other bikers out there.

Site:	Bike Monkey
Page/Post:	Blog posts in November
Spreadsheet:	Lake Sonoma Bike Race Results

Compiled List of Running Races

This spreadsheet will prove very useful to those runners in Central Ohio who agree with DrewEOB on the runningahead.com forums - who says: "I'm not a huge fan of fishing through five or more sites to find some races, so I put together my listing. It's certainly not exhaustive, but it's got some depth...". Wouldn't it be nice if there were one of these for every state or region!? (i can't understand why Drew didn't post a link to this spreadsheet from his own blog... it's really useful!)

Site: RunningAhead.com forums
Page/Post: Central Ohio race Listing
Spreadsheet: Upcoming Races in Central Ohio