July 25, 200717 yr I'll vote for me if you vote for me! Come on...need I whip out the patriotic colors again, and attempt to win you all over... :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave:!!!VOTE URBANCINCY!!! :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave:
August 1, 200717 yr CincyTechUSA, Chamber pick region's top 10 blogs August 1, 2007 | CINCINNATI ENQUIRER CINCINNATI - Blogs about Cincinnati development, cancer, music, sports, wine and public relations were among the winners of a best blogs competition sponsored by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and the region's high-tech initiative, CincyTechUSA. The organizations received 154 nominations for 62 unique blog entries over the past seven days on Cincinnati.Com in a search for the best blog written in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and the best blog written by a chamber member.
August 1, 200717 yr Sorry you were not a finalist Uncle Rando :( Congrats to Grasscat though! Well deserved.
August 1, 200717 yr Alas - no Uncle Rando...but hey, go Grasscat! And I guess Drew is a forumer too, given the bolding?
August 1, 200717 yr Well I know I had some strangers vote for my blog (they emailed me and let me know)...I wish I know what my final tally was. In all honesty, my blog isn't of the calibar of those others quite yet. I'm working on it, but I'm trying to create a photography studio website (via Pbase) and work on some other stuff...as well as keep the posts flowing on UO. Grasscat...well deserved, you do a nice job. Now there are some others on the list that seem suspect, but I'll leave my conspirarcies for another day. :laugh: And I'm not sure if Drew is a forumer or not, but he lingers around cinplify and I would think he drops by here from time to time. I could be wrong though.
August 1, 200717 yr BTW...UrbanCincy is getting about 100-150 hits per day. When things are really happening (ie the response to my 'The NEW Downtown' post) I'll do double that.
August 1, 200717 yr Congrats Kevin! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 1, 200717 yr Some of these seem like nice blogs and some, like patent baristas seem to offer some good info, but I don't see much of a a Cinti connection to them. Grasscat's HAD to be in there, especially with the new layout. I wonder if the decision to put CincinnatiBlog in there had much to do with the fact that it constantly links to cincinnati.com ? :-) For a city that is almost half black - it's a pretty white lookin' list.
August 1, 200717 yr There are a few others that could have made the list in my opinion over some of the suspect blogs (obviously aside from my own). Qualified sites that missed the cut: Joe Wessels: Report This! Living Out Loud (a City Beat blog) 'Nati Life Suspect sites from the Top 10 list: -Freckle Photo -Patent Baristas -Fort's Cancer Sux (I understand the strong message of this blog, but is it really a CINCINNATI blogsite...it seems more like an expanded MySpace page) It would be an easy 3-3 tradeoff.
August 1, 200717 yr Here is the Business Courier's article on the topic...notice the name of the author of Building Cincinnati Chamber names 'best blog' finalists August 1, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER CINCINNATI - Considering that some people still don't know what a "blog" is, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber had more than enough nominees for its first "Cincinnati USA's Best Blog Competition". The chamber and its high-tech initiative, CincyTechUSA, sifted through 62 nominees to pick the top 10 blogs posted by Tri-Staters. They are: "Building Cincinnati": coverage of local development news by Kevin McMaster, at www.buildingcincinnati.blogspot.com. "Cincinnati Blog": political news and opinion by Brian Griffin, at www.cincinnati.blogspot.com. "DesignCincinnati": regional design and architecture highlights by Drew Steinbrecher, at www.drew-o-rama.com/designcincinnati. "Fort's Cancer Sux": a journal about battling breast cancer by Melissa McLaughlin, at www.fortscancersux.blogspot.com. "Freckle Photo": a photo journal by Melissa Speelman, at www.frecklephoto.com. "Each Note Secure": music news by Joe Long of Internet rock station WOXY, at www.eachnotesecure.com. "Lance McAlister": sports commentary by Lance McAlister of WSAI-AM, at www.1530homer.com/pages/lancesBlog.html. "My Wine Education": commentary about the local and worldwide wine scene by Michelle Lentz, at www.wine-girl.net. "Patent Baristas": news about intellectual property topics by Stephen Albainy-Jenei, at www.patentbaristas.com. "Strategic Public Relations": information on public relations issues by Kevin Dugan, at www.prblog.typepad.com. The chamber will present awards - Apple iPhones - to the two top winners Thursday, at its Web 2.0 Bootcamp, which will feature a presentation on blogging and streaming video by Pete Blackshaw, of Nielsen BuzzMetrics.
August 1, 200717 yr Not only did they get my name wrong, they also have the URLs for several of the blogs incorrect. Blogger blogs don't have a "www" in them. It still goes to the same page, but it's technically incorrect. I e-mailed the Business Courier about the misspelling and I haven't heard back. Rando...I don't think there was an actual vote tally. I think every blog that was nominated was then judged by an unnamed panel of experts, and they were the ones who decided.
August 1, 200717 yr Rando...I don't think there was an actual vote tally. I think every blog that was nominated was then judged by an unnamed panel of experts, and they were the ones who decided. I see...thx for some clarification on this otherwise confusing contest.
August 2, 200717 yr It's possible that having Cincy NewsAche and the Beacon in my blogroll might have hurt me with the Cincinnati.com folks.
August 2, 200717 yr Well...if it means anything, Building Cincinnati is my favorite amongst the bunch.
August 3, 200717 yr It's possible that having Cincy NewsAche and the Beacon in my blogroll might have hurt me with the Cincinnati.com folks. LOL !
December 10, 20204 yr With the rise of social media came the decline of blogs and RSS readers. There were so many great Cincinnati-focused blogs in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Coincidentally that was the same time that our urban core was going through a big renaissance so blogs were the perfect way to find out about what was happening and organize meetups with fellow urbanists. We even had Cinplify, which was basically a Reddit or Digg style site just for Cincinnati stuff. CincyBlog is still posting news, mostly related to local politics. @5chw4r7z is still sharing occasional photos and writings. @Gordon Bombay just revamped Queen City Discovery and turned it into a new personal site and blog. Earlier this year I moved UrbanCincy over to a new server (and you'll probably see an occasional new post there from time to time), but the site started to slow down when many of our original team members moved away from Cincinnati or got busy with their own careers. Other than that I don't think any of the old sites are still around.
December 10, 20204 yr Meanwhile, on this non-blog... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 10, 20204 yr My old site, UrbanUp, is long retired but can still be found on Archive.org. Bits and pieces of it can be found on my other sites.
December 15, 20204 yr The late 2000s and early 2010s was also when a lot of people were out of work, so they had more time for blogs (whether writing, reading, or commenting). Some of the decline is self-fulfilling though, which I find unfortunate. Of course engagement is going to decline if you stop producing content, but that should only matter if you have real financial stake in the whole thing.
December 15, 20204 yr Don't forget that when Twitter was first created it was called "microblogging" -- a term that is virtually never used anymore. Once social media hit a certain critical mass, why bother writing a blog post if you can just share your short form thoughts Twitter or your photos on Instagram? Any if no one is blogging anymore, why would anyone visit blogs or use an RSS reader? Just follow the people you like on social media. And if you are a company that runs an RSS reader service that fewer people are using each year, why keep investing resources in it? And that essentially led to the collapse of the "open" web ecosystem and funneled everything into the closed, algorithm-driven social networks we have today.
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