community news blogs
posted by finneganYesterday Waldo Jaquith posted about the growing number of community news blogs in Virginia. There was a flurry of discussion on je ne sais pas about the topic back in January, which I totally missed.
Compared to a lot of other states, Virginia has a fairly well-connected community of bloggers. Between Waldo’s statewide political aggregator, blognet news, alliances like Old Dominion, and Blogs United in Hampton Roads, bloggers in the Commonwealth know what everyone else is up to. But I still think most areas lack a sense of “local internet” in their community, which is a shame, because people spend so much of their time online these days.
But it looks like people are doing some really cool things with it. I only wish I had any web/code experience whatsoever, and the time to post more often and add more features, like this. I still haven’t even upgraded to WP 2.0 for fear of messing something up. I do not understand code, host files, or any of that stuff. I think it’s funny when people assume I’m a tech geek.
-finnegan
posted: March 19th, 2007 by finnegan
filed under FYI, about hburgnews.
Comments: 11
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Comment from john m
Time: March 19, 2007, 6:54 am
finnegan,
In setting up Petersburg People’s News, I took the code behind Church Hill People’s News and made it fairly portable. If there are features from pburgpn.net that you like, I can probably help you add them to your site pretty easily.
Comment from David Troyer
Time: March 19, 2007, 8:24 am
I think you mean wordpress 2.1, the site is currently running on 2.0.3.
Comment from finnegan
Time: March 19, 2007, 9:05 am
Like I said, I don’t know. I’ll email you guys and try to figure this out.
While were on the topic, what sort of features would you like to see (assuming I can figure out how to use this)? Flickr badge? Weather? Newest comments?
Comment from john m
Time: March 20, 2007, 12:19 am
I’ve found that “recent comments” keeps discussions going longer. The main post will drop off of the front page and folks’ll still keep hitting it through recent commens. Sometimes posts a few months old will get a comment and spur a whole ‘nother round of commenting.
Comment from finnegan
Time: March 20, 2007, 10:34 am
Yeah, I definitely need to add that.
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Time: March 24, 2007, 2:40 pm
[...] A quick follow up to the community blogs post and the one Josh posted earlier this month: [...]
Comment from Jim Duncan
Time: March 29, 2007, 12:46 pm
Referencing John M’s comment, the “subscribe to comments” plugin also helps to keep the discussion moving.
Comment from finnegan
Time: March 29, 2007, 12:56 pm
Jim, where can I get the WP plugin for that? There seem to be several on WP. Which one should I install?
Comment from David Troyer
Time: March 29, 2007, 1:23 pm
brent,
it’s not a plugin, it is just another feed. It can be found at http://hburgnews.com/comments/feed/
the normal (posting) feed is at http://hburgnews.com/feed/
It is fairly standard practice to put these links somewhere on the page, like the footer, in case someone isn’t using a browser like firefox that finds them for you.
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Time: March 29, 2007, 1:45 pm
[...] cvillenews has a new look By Jim Duncan Celebrating six years of community blogging, Waldo revamped cvillenews yesterday. cvillenews has been a leader both locally, regionally and probably nationally for local blogging. [...]
Comment from finnegan
Time: March 29, 2007, 3:26 pm
Done, David T. I added them above recent comments. Don’t know how to get the little orange cube to appear next to it, though.
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