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New Features: Readers' Photos

By Eric Richardson — August 13, 2008

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I teased on Sunday that there were a few new features in the works, and tonight I get the chance to let you help a fun one: Readers’ Photos. A lot of you take great photos of Downtown, and we’d like to see some of them here on the site. — Continued Inside...

Looking Back on a Design Evolution

By Eric Richardson — August 10, 2008
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|Photo Gallery| Every once in a while I like to give a little glimpse behind the scenes of blogdowntown. Today I happened across a folder of design mockups I had created in the process of putting together the new design we launched on April 1st of this year. This sequence of four images gives a fair representation of how the site’s look developed in the months preceding...

Thanks for Talking

By Eric Richardson — June 14, 2008
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Recently I wrote that Friday was a slow day for comments. Well, yesterday you all blew that idea out of the water. Friday, June 13th, had the most comments of any day in blogdowntown history.

Patterns, Numbers and Comments

By Eric Richardson — June 03, 2008

|Photo Gallery| This may fall clearly into the category of lies and statistics, but tonight I decided to run some numbers to see if a hunch I had would hold true. My question: Are comments really a lot lighter of Fridays than on other weekdays?

Looking at blogdowntown Stories from Above

By Eric Richardson — May 29, 2008
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Just a bit of a fun image this evening. What you’re looking at is a view of all blogdowntown stories from April - May, 2008, that were about a location. The image was taken from a Google Maps overlay of blogdowntown data. I’m rather impressed with the distribution of coverage. We’re a little Historic Core-heavy and a bit South Park-poor, but...