Introducing: DC Blogs Live
Dear Readers: please check this out: www.dcblogs.com/live.
The link will take you to an automated feed of DC Blogs. There are 75 blogs entered. It’s a beta effort. There are still technical issues to resolve, including a server rehosting project, and that's why it's rolling out slowly. However, I hope to expand the list of blogs every week.
What this is:
The goal of dcblogs is to identify new blogs, highlight noteworthy blog posts, as well as provide a subject index guide. The hope is that this helps the blogging community become more interconnected. I don’t believe that an unfiltered automated feed builds community by itself, so it will serve as a companion to the edited content.
An observation:
The number of blogs is on the rise in the DC area. Many of these blogs are thoughtful, well written and very entertaining and reflect this region's bright and highly educated workforce. But from this collective effort it’s almost as if an ad hoc newspaper, for lack of better term, is emerging.
Increasingly, local bloggers are specializing, filling niches and subject areas. Talented groups of independent bloggers, for instance, write and report daily about the arts, food, entertainment, and increasingly local news via neighborhood blogs. But most bloggers write about the personal experience of living here, sharing points of view that, for me at least, have humanized this city.
Collectively, DC bloggers are giving this city a revolutionary alternative media. The hope is that dcblogs/live serves as a useful tool for connecting with that source of information.
Credits:
A longtime friend, Tom Fausel, built the live feed engine and has set it up in Connecticut and New Jersey. He’s an IT wizard with strong database expertise. Tom’s next big project is to get off the energy grid. Laurie Conrod, a talented web designer, created this second page.
How the engine works is explained in a little more detail on its page.
Bloomingdale, The DC Neighborhood
Bloomingdale
Blogs with neighborhood, local news focus, are still small in number but here’s a nice addition to the existing offerings. It’s the work of a neighborhood resident, a painter and sculpture, who also runs the blog Paint and Plaster. The blog offers an eclectic panorama of news, history and notes about this neighborhood.
Happy Anniversary To Me
Babylon on the Potomac
A blogger assembles a list of everything that’s happened to him since moving to DC 10 years ago.
Also Noted
A threat of legal action from a restaurant. From DC Foodies.
Useful help for those in the job market at DC Recruiting.
Movies and music by an Arlington-based blogger at iprogress.
Rainy LA. A recent DC transplant writes. From Sam Felder.
posted by kob @ 12:06 AM
13 Comments:
First of all, I'm happy to see the live page. My enthusiasm is dampened by the use of yet another planet-style aggregator. It works, but I have to wonder if time wouldn't be better invested in an another aggregator with more maintainers and users. Planet Planet is very popular. Planet PHP is maintained by a few people. Chumpologica is another one-man task, but it has a particular agenda. If Tom looked at the existing projects and found them insufficent for one or more reasons, that's fine.
This rant is largely spurned by my security concerns. Hopefully everyone on the blogroll is trustworthy. I'm already bothered by bugs like
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and I've already found a XSS vulnerability (although I doubt it would be of much use).
Live is always better. :)
Fantastic!
DC blogs live...
...I may never do real work again.
Love the new live site. Great job!!!
The two pages are so different in flavor - such different approaches to blogging. Yay!! Thank you so much for involving all of us in the beta stage of adding this new feature to DCBlogs.
Very cool service. Thanks, guys!
Sweet mercy... Electronic crack cocaine is what it is, pure and simple.
(Now excuse me while I cross "be more productive at work" off my resolution list.)
Happy New Year to DC Blogs. Thank you for all you do.
Love the new live version. Thanks for putting so much into this site!
Most definitely, I gotta say I'm with Travis. I click through my blog roll a few times a day - - this will do that for me :-D
Thanks, KOB!
Very nice! I am in soooo much trouble if the IT folks here at work are really tracking my every move....
Any chance I can add this to my Bloglines feed?
Travis, "electronic crack cocaine" is the phrase of the day.
Thanks everyone for the kind notes -- appreciate the feedback.
Jamy, the feed itself isn't rss enabled.
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