Posted by: metrocascade on: February 23, 2009
Two-thirds of the MetroCascade team (Yule & Werner) were at NorthernVoice 2009 this past weekend, where we enjoyed a flood of presentations and sessions about blogging and social media (and someone sagely suggested killing that term, as it was getting overused)… It was fun, but now it’s important to remember that it’s shoulders to the [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 17, 2009
When I first thought of starting MetroCascade, I was spurred by the information I gained serving as a volunteer grants adjudicator on the CRD’s Arts Advisory Council. Even though I grew up in Victoria (moved away for 30+ years) and have lived here again since 2002, I had no idea the region was home to [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 13, 2009
In a previous post I mentioned that we eliminated the feed (via ca.yahoo.com) for Victoria’s daily newspaper, the Times-Colonist, because a) that feed contained too many non-Victoria/ non-local items, and b) it tended to inundate (pun!) the cascade to the point that it (the cascade) turned into a platform for the daily paper, drowing out [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 10, 2009
In the previous entry I noted that we were carrying out all sorts of behind-the-scenes work, which is still ongoing – and will be for a long while.
But it’s a learning curve for us to see how quickly we have to change course, depending on blur v. focus. Yesterday, for example, we added a yahoo-based [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 9, 2009
Werner and Helmut have been working behind the scenes all day today, and while it’s not yet visible on MetroCascade’s public page, by tomorrow you should see many more blogs and news sources aggregated.
The sources are growing quickly enough that I can see the next UI issues becoming acute more quickly than anticipated: (a) ensure [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 9, 2009
After I tweeted and facebooked my note about MetroCascade being live with its new design, Vikki Flawith signed up with us. That was a really nice gesture, especially since at this point we haven’t (yet!) rolled out additional features for signed-up users.
What I find particularly exciting about Vikki’s sign-up is what it says about the [...]
Posted by: metrocascade on: February 7, 2009
Whoa, it’s up…!
MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC, is up and ready to go!
We’ve been online for while now, but not till yesterday did we get our great new look. Now we feel ready to tell the world.
Much of the behind-the-scenes work is done (thanks to Helmut and Werner), which means more “upfront” [...]
