It’s All About Alamedans!
Happy St. Patricks Day!
Have you noticed? The blogosphere is exploding with great, bloggy goodness.
So of course you can learn to use RSS feeders to keep track of what you want to read (it’s easy, fun and flexible). But for some reason, most people aren’t interested, and so I started chatting with some people about 18 months ago (ok, it was Lauren Do) and then we chatted with some more people, and we started coalescing around this idea of everyone getting together and presenting their blogs in one place.
A magical place, where a person could get a quick rundown of what people were writing about and only read the things that they wanted to read. A nonconfusing place, where you didn’t have to remember to check six different website, something made especially frustrating because some blog only posts every three weeks. Of course, it being a volunteer operation, it took a year and a half to create this place.
A place we now call www.alamedans.com (quick! Click on the link and bookmark it, in fact, if you are using RSS, you can grab the Alamedans.com feed and get all the feeds for the sites involved).
It’s a collective of posts from A Progressive Alamedan, Alameda Journal Blog, Biggs City, Blogging Bayport, The Island, Schools 94501/94052, and of course Stop Drop and Roll (first rule in setting things up, don’t forget your own site!)
But it’s more than that. We’ve started creating the first ever online video archive of school board meetings. (I can’t promise the untelevised ones will always be available, but we’ll try). We have links to the most recent episodes of Alameda Currents, and ADN, the funny one…ok, the intentionally funny one.
We’ll be presenting guest editorials from blogger wannabes who don’t want all the pressure of having a blog. And we have more ideas (oh so many ideas) and hopefully we’ll bring them to fruition.
So with that, I encourage you to visit often, everything you find here, you’ll find there (in abbreviated form). And let us know what you think
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