All Posts Tagged With: "Kingstonist"
Kingstonist Turns Four!
Happy Birthday to us! Today is Kingstonist’s 4th Birthday and, as I’m sure you all know, we’ve been celebrating all week long with a fun contest featuring various questions about our great, little town. Thanks so much to everyone who has participated, it’s been really fun, not only coming up with the questions, but also [...]
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Weekly Poll: Make Kingstonist (Even) Better
Last March, on the 2nd to be exact, Kingstonist unveiled our new look, which presented a slightly revamped interface with a handful of new, useful features, and a lot more horsepower under the hood. Over the past six months we’ve been maximizing the use of the site’s new features: geo-tagging, hot topics, breaking news alerts, [...]
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Kingstonist’s Community Soapbox
When Kingstonist was conceived, we decided that it was vital for our contributors to reflect the city’s population at large, which is to say that we wanted to attract a diverse team from a variety of walks of life. While we’ve had our fair share of challenges in recruiting and retaining talented individuals, we’re proud [...]
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Kingstonist Goes to the Polls
Sometimes I like to think of Kingstonist as a garden (of awesomeness), which requires constant care and attention in order for it to grow and ultimately flourish. This goes far beyond the daily grind of pruning content, approving comments and engaging readers via Twitter. From time to time we attempt to fertilize our online plot [...]
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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 work. This [...]
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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 [...]
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Commenting Just Got Easier
Since we launched Kingstonist back in February 2008; 517 days ago to be exact, we’ve received a whopping 514 comments. Needless to say we are pretty pleased with audience participation levels thus far, however we’re always looking for new ways to make the site more interactive, and more user friendly. Following our most recent contest, [...]
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More Geotaggin’ Fun
Back in May, we announced our most recent contest where we asked our readers to help to make Kingstonist faster, stronger, and better. About two weeks ago we sorted through all of the fantastic suggestions, and in the end we decided that geotagging was something we needed to do more of, immediately. Although our library [...]
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Friday Foto
Where has the day gone? I sat down nearly half a dozen times earlier today and tried to put keys to keyboard, but the phone kept ringing, ceiling kept painting, and PABers kept PABing. Today’s the big day where we finally crown the winner of our latest and greatest contest. It gives me great pleasure [...]
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Friday Foto
Hey there, and happy Friday. This week we welcomed Kingston’s hippest Librarian to the City, and are optimistic that once she’s nonnomadic, she might be willing to share some of her experiences as a newcomer to our burgeoning metropolis. Notice how craftily I incorporated big, fancy words in that sentence? Perhaps diction will improve overall [...]
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