Changes to Urban Review – St. Louis
Categories
This weekend tech guru Brian Marston updated my blog to show the categories I’ve been using for entries. This will hopefully make it easier to review archives. Please note that some entries are in multiple categories.
If you have suggestions on new categories for me to use please let me know in the comments below.
Local Sponsorship
We are talking with some locally owned businesses about sponsoring my site and others in the St. Louis Syndicate. The exact form the ads will take on (banner, side display ad, etc…) has yet to be determined. We are still working on pricing as well. Part of the answer is in the level of interest from local business owners. If you have interested please send me an email. In the meantime click on a Google ad in the right column to help out.
News Aggregators
This isn’t a change so much as a technological note. With the substantial amount of information available on the internet it is increasingly difficult to check all the various web sites for interesting information. With RSS & Atom feeds you don’t need to go to the news – the news will come to you. Including Urban Review – St. Louis!
You don’t need to worry about the types of feeds and how it all works. All you need to know are some choices of applications. For recommended news aggregators click here. This list includes recommendations for Mac, Windows and other operating systems.
If you are lucky enough to use a Macintosh computer from Apple you may want to consider upgrading your operating system to the new OSX 10.4 “Tiger” which was released on Friday. It has integrated RSS support in the Safari browser. I haven’t upgraded yet but I plan to do so in the next few weeks.
Notifications
If you are not ready to make the jump to RSS feeds but want to know when I’ve added a new entry to Urban Review – St. Louis you can sign-up to receive “notifications” via email. Each time I make a new entry you will receive a brief email with a link to the new entry. Your privacy is protected – the list is never used for any other purpose. To begin receiving notifications send an email to this address.
Not Getting Enough of My Views?
Ever wonder about my thoughts on issues such as music, TV, advertising and other pop culture issues? Oh, you haven’t huh? Well, fine. Oh wait, I see a couple of hands in the back of the room. For the few of you that are curious I’ve got a new blog devoted to all those subjects not covered here on Urban Review – St. Louis. The new blog is called, Steve’s Thoughts. Check it out. And yes, RSS feeds are available for the new site as well.
And don’t forget, I have a site on St. Louis’ 25th Aldermanic Ward. The look has just been updated and I will be posting new information this week on local meetings, happenings and neighborhood issues. Not for everyone but if you live in or around the area you may find it interesting. RSS feeds and notifications are also available for this site.
Podcasts
I am working on the next installment of my podcasting. It takes quite a bit of time to put together just a short podcast. I’ve started recording short segments as they come to me so as I get enough I will be putting them together for broadcast.
Links and More LInks
I have some great links in the right hand column so be sure to check those out. I am also working on adding a substantial number of links. These will be in clearly marked categories to make it easy to find what you are looking for.
Thanks for reading Urban Review – St. Louis!
– Steve
Steve-
I’d just like to say “thanks” for the work you do in providing this resource. There are so many different places to go for information and discussion of issues, and this place has become one of a handful where I visit.
Not being a “blogger”, I haven’t yet experienced what it’s like to regularly publish ideas in this new format. However, being on the “reader” side gives me at least the opportunity to participate. So thanks for that. And besides, if everyone had their own blogs, who would be left on the read and comment side of the screen?
I guess the potential with this is unlimited. Have you considered the idea of having events, live blog sessions (whatever that means), or other opportunities where fans of your website could get together, say somewhere in the 25th ward or down Carondelet way, perhaps as a fundraiser in support of your blog community?
RB
From afar, that community appears to be an assemblage of overlapping ideas and interests, represented in a variety of places, cyber and actual, and by a variety of people:
Urban Review St. Louis
The Commonspace
Arch City Chronicle
Read Julia
Ecology of Absence
Metropolis St. Louis
Built St. Louis
Urban St. Louis
STL Syndicate
and others I’m sure I’m forgetting
In the aggregate, this is a substantial, intelligent force for change in St. Louis–one with a large potential impact on local politics and culture, and one that should be reaching (and reaching out to) a larger national audience.