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Inspiring idea. Have you considered aggregating the various twitter feeds of your bloggers? How reliant are you on your own personal knowledge of Chicago to m

• brandnewlow 18y ago
  1. I actually started work on an uber-twitter feed for all our members (we've almost reached our first 1,000 registered users). It seemed like a fun idea, but what's the use case? What made you suggest it? 2. In all honesty, I have very little prior personal knowledge of Chicago and few, if any personal connections here in the city. I'd certainly do a lot better if I had family here and knew lots of folks, but I'm getting by. In the last month I've started meeting with local media who are seeing what we're up and wanting to get on board with our voting buttons on their sites. 3. Nope. In fact, everyone I pitched this idea to told me it was awful, including Kevin Rose himself. I'm doing it anyway. Like I said, this is far from a success, but it's growing and people who find us are signing up and getting involved.