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Kingstonist’s Big Birthday Contest Winner

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are you’ve heard about and maybe even attempted Kingstonist’s Big Birthday Contest. Our latest contest challenged our readers to unscramble images, fill in the blanks on local historic plaques and signs, as well as use Google Streetview to determine certain points of view.  Admittedly this contest [...]

3Mar2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 2 comments | Continued
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Kingstonist Turns Two!

While most proud parents would likely sit back and laugh while their toddler destroys a perfectly good birthday cake, I’m the sort of person who’s more apt to dive right in and join in the fun.  In case you missed the numerous hints and reminders, today we are proud to announce and celebrate Kingstonist’s [...]

2Mar2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Kingstonist’s Big Birthday Contest

My grandmother always says “you’re only as old as you feel”. With that in mind, it’s hard to believe that two weeks from today we will be celebrating Kingstonist’s second birthday. Has it really been that long since we started the site? Thanks to the hard work and dedication of our volunteer contributors, [...]

16Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Local Trends on Twitter

In light of tonight’s Limestone New Media Group (LNMG) meetup, the first session of the New Year, I thought that today’s post should focus on an aspect of social media.  Just before Kingstonist’s first birthday, we caved and joined the tweeting masses.  While we’ve been on Twitter for less than a year, @kingstonist has already [...]

26Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

By now you should know the routine. Each and every week Kingstonist publishes Friday Foto, which showcases outstanding images taken by local photogs. We rely entirely on Flickr for all of our photographic needs.  While some Flickr users subscribe to creative commons licensing, a vast majority of people maintain full copyright over their [...]

15Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Kingstonist Just Got Intense!

A while back, we polled our readers for their suggestions to spruce up the site and help make Kingstonist more awesome.  We received a lot of great feedback, which led to a few changes, most notably the demise of user registration, as well as the login method of commenting.  These small tweaks made it much [...]

13Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 8 comments | Continued
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Best of 2009 (Part 5 of 5)

Happy New Year, and happy Friday! While it happens to be the first glorious day of 2010, it is also the last weekend of my vacation, and time for the final post in Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review. Thus far we’ve celebrated stories focusing on everything from Google Street View to H1N1, pedestrian [...]

1Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Best of 2009 (Part 4 of 5)

Thus far, Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review has celebrated our most memorable posts, while unintentionally focusing on content concerning a variety of transportation elements.  From the arrival of Google Street View to a hypothetical pedestrian friendly downtown and a discussion concerning roundabouts, it’s time to look back at something a bit different in your [...]

31Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Best of 2009 (Part 3 of 5)

In part one of Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review, we focused on our city streets and their newfound fame thanks to Google Street View.  Yesterday’s pick was also related to transportation, as it concentrated on closing down city streets to make them pedestrian friendly.  In light of our selections thus far, I suppose it should [...]

30Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Best of 2009 (Part 2 of 5)

Welcome back to the 2nd episode of Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review. In case you missed part one, I will briefly reiterate that we aren’t ranking posts, rather this list is based upon an analysis of content that received the most comments, page views, links from external websites, as well as input from our [...]

29Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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