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Feb
19
The creators of NWIFeed have come up with a great idea that connects Northwest Indiana bloggers with each other in a peer-ranked listing of popular local blog posts.
It takes the idea of BlogNetNews’s Indiana feed and expands it into a superb way to keep up with what’s happening in Valparaiso, Munster, Crown Point and everywhere else in Northwest Indiana. Not only is NWIFeed a more localized way to keep up with what’s on the minds of Lake, LaPorte and Porter County’s intelligentsia, it’s a new way to interact within the blogosphere.
A user can nominate a blog post, then Tweet it, and others can “Feed” it if they like it.
“Feeding” a post on NWIFeed is a vote for the story. The more people “feeding” a story, the higher it goes in the NWIFeed rankings.
I remember working with Steve Dalton — a prolific Valparaiso-based blogger — in the past on trying to promote NWI blogging by various methods — blog listings, recaps and blog carnivals. All were labor intensive and difficult to maintain along with work and family commitments. While I’m not sure of all of the wizardry behind NWIFeed, it seems to be a system that will work because NWI bloggers are “feeding” the information into the system and the site’s coding takes care of the rest.
If you haven’t used NWIFeed yet, it’s a worthwhile source for Northwest Indiana news and opinion.
Nominate some of your favorite blog’s posts to be placed into the arena of ideas. It’s great fun and an excellent way to keep up with what is happening in the region’s new media world.
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8 Responses to “NWIFeed connects Northwest Indiana bloggers”
NWIFeed connects Northwest Indiana bloggers | Christopher Hedges…
NWIFeed.com takes off where past efforts to create a blogging community in Northwest Indiana left off. Gone are the days of blog carnivals and manually created blog digests. The future is here with peer-ranked blogging in a social community created wit…
Well said. I think this will be a great resource for us and our kids for years to come. A place where anyone can go for local news without having to search through dozens of websites and blogs to find it.
Great post Chris!
Jeff Eriks
NWIFeed connects Northwest Indiana bloggers | Christopher Hedges…
Review of new platform connecting local bloggers stories…
Chris I remember all you guys did with the blog carnivals. Thanks for the update on NWIFeeds
Hi Jeff,
It helps take the work out of keeping up with what’s going in around Northwest Indiana. I’m glad NWIFeed is out there helping us out as well by giving our blogs some nice publicity.
Hi Aaron,
The blog carnivals were fun. I think Steve Dalton came up with the idea. It was a great way to boost our local blogosphere.
I love the way that Northwest Indiana’s online community has blossomed. A couple of years ago there was a short list of bloggers — maybe 50 or so. Now, there are plenty of great writers doing all sorts of awesome work.
The hard part is keeping up with it all, but NWIFeed seems to be doing a great job of helping with that as well.
Maybe one of these days, we’ll have to have a blog carnival to bring back the spirit of the old days.
What I’d love to see is an automatic way that nwifeeds loads the most recent posts from the top 20 or so blogs each day. I have all the RSS codes, is it possible to auto feed them? They would only have one vote, so they’d still need more human votes to qualify as popular.
Hi Steve,
If NWIFeed monitored RSS feeds, it would be a lot like Blog Net News. That might not be a bad feature to add — if I need to get up to speed on what’s happening in Indiana, I usually turn to BNN.
The nice thing about NWIFeed is that it more like Digg in that it is human created. Someone has to be inspired enough to input the link. In some ways, that helps make sure that the best posts make it to the system.