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Cincinnati Sites
The way I see it, you have to follow to get followed. Like twitter has taught me, be engaging, and be diverse: and you’ll find yourself in among friends. In fact, Twitter has taught me if you’re diverse, engaging, and just a tad bit humorous, you can find yourself in a bar in Chicago on a Saturday night chatting up old M*A*S*H* episodes with the Twitterverse elite.
I’m pretty sure I’ve already done this, and I know for a fact I’ve done this with podcasts, but I’d like to share a small few blogs (that all happen to deal with Porkopolis) that I subscribe to, for one reason or another. If not to only share great content, but to return the love these sites have shown me.
Yo, cut it.
Cincinnati Re-Adventure
This is where I start my list: with a blog created by my sister, and her boyfriend to reignite their love for the city of Cincinnati, by visiting the places they never knew where there. They do some awesome posts about all kinds of events, like quest to find all of the flying pigs, review local food, and keep you informed on some of the major political and social events of the season. Plus with regular trips to comic book stores, music venues and museums, they have everything you need to be awesome. And of course, feedback is always appreciated.
Cincy Streetcar Blog
A progressive blog about one of Cincinnati’s biggest hot-button issues right now. The blog is pretty straight forward, and cuts through the bullshit and bureaucracy surrounding things like issue nine, and funding for transportation projects.
(which, you should vote no on)
CAAST
Another forward-thinking, Cincinnati based, no-on-nine blog dedicated to tackling the stupid ideas that threaten Greater Cincinnati by dispelling myths, calling people out on their words, and bringing to light some great content about what goes on in the Queen city. Very political.
One Man Crime Wave
I am totally gay for the guys over at OMCW, ever since I found them on Twitter. They were super nice, very engaging, and really know their stuff about football. Always a step ahead of other Bengals sites, they cover what’s most important: sprinkling on a wealth of statistics, insight, and humor. A total must-read for anyone interested in the orange and black, and a follow you won’t regret.
Ken Broo (with the Broo View)
Not only is there a high amount of Broo puns available (Brooniverse, Broony-Toons, Broost Mobile) this guy serves up local sports news as an anchor for Channel Five. But on top of his news coverage, he delivers a damn fine podcast dedicated to Bengals coverage, regularly dissects college football, and hosts weekly interviews of top sports names. You just can’t go wrong with Ken Broo. (Who, even left a comment on my blog when I mentioned him last time. What an awesome guy.)
Bonus: Mountain Broo, Hawaiian Brooau, Broo-Broo-Broodio, and Oklahoma Brooners
Also, I wanted to make a quick mention of Happn In Cincinnati which delivers local trending topics via Twitter, which is a great way to see what’s popular in the city. And if you’re a fan of local music, vote for your favorite bands. (like Freekbass and Bad Veins) So that’s just a few, and as always, I’d love to hear what everyone’s favorite blogs are: Cincinnati or not.
And maybe Ken Broo will leave us a few links.
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For a while now, I’ve been brewing some ideas on how to better improve the social media world. As somebody who’s in the trenches every day using social media tools and sites, and trying to adapt to the habits of ever-changing content integration, I fancy myself a bit of of a guru. After all, I totally ditched Myspace before it was cool.
A Blog Integrated, Feed Reading Plug-In has been something I’ve wanted since the inception of feed readers. Back when NewsGator was the shit, and Google Reader hadn’t yet hit the web, sites were still relativity new to the idea of feeds. That meant having a feed reader wasn’t always ideal from having a folder full of bookmarks, because you still have to visit most sites directly. But now, feeds are almost guaranteed for even the most basic websites. Webcomics, personal blogs, they can all be routed into feed readers making your day a whole-hell-of-a-lot quicker, and more efficient.
But feed readers didn’t kill the need to visit some sites directly, which puts you at odds if you’re reading the content of a site that you’ve subscribed to, on the site, and not in your reader. Which is why I had the idea of developing a plug-in for sites that deliver feed-optional content, that would directly update your feed-reader if you’ve read the content on a site. If I go to BoingBoing and read their articles for two hours,
I want that reflected in my feed reader automatically (I’d even go as far as check-marking a box at the bottom of a website’s post) so I don’t have to click “mark all as read” and throw off my user statistics.
You could even take this one-step further, by having a plug-in to mark each entry on a site’s feed with a code that could be used by multiple sites like Tumblr, Facebook AND Google Reader to mark the content as having already been shared, thus removing it from the streams of the other sites. (ie: If read it on Google Reader, that post doesn’t show up on Tumblr or Facebook, unless noted with the comments of a friend)
One-click Feed Reading would also be super nice to bring feed-readers into a more modern era. I mean, this is a really minor thing, but when I want to subscribe to a site, I have to find the orange icon, usually specify the type of feed I want -RSS or ATOM on old blogs- then which feed reader -Google by default- and finally one more time when I’m actually in my feed reader. It just seems like, if we can make ads that let you make full purchases in a side-bar, then we can make a button that skips all the options, and uses default settings to just make it happen.
Alright web-developers, programmers and designers, getting cracking, these ideas aren’t going to manifest themselves into revolutionary new tools.
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