Currently the site is working as intended. Well minus the lack of participation of course but that is to be expected after only two days.
I am thinking about the future and what more can be done. As things stand there is no advertising, nor do we have any costs to do this.
All I have done is basically mash together a bunch of free stuff to get the info I want.
With no costs there is no need to advertise or make money. Which is great as it should help with adoption and use. No one likes advertising. Look at all the local news sites and you can see why.
Here are some of my current thoughts and future ideas for the site:
1. Speed up the time between posts to blog and posts to Twitter
2. How do you maintain "real time news and info" but prevent abuse / spam?
3. Ensure that mobility is top priority
4. Dedicated individual filtering submissions and farming data from various sources to ensure quality near real time data. (costs money)
Please post your thoughts, ideas and suggestions regarding the site and any of what I have mentioned here as a comment.
Thanks,
Dane
techguy@gmail.com
2 comments:
Dane,
Cool site and good idea for those living in Acadiana. My suggestion would be to move this blog off of Blogger to Word Press before it gets rolling. Word Press will host the site for free or you can pay for a domain name if you would so choose. I had a Word Press blog and I really liked the interface. I was using it for affiliate programs but got tired of fooling with it. Along with Type Pad, it is probably the best blogging platform out there. It is very robust, offers RSS, has a filter to deal with spam, fantastic photo capabilities, includes direct uploads and posts from Microsoft Live Writer which is a free blog posting program available from MS.
Just something to think about. Word Press is just more versatile and feature rich. It offers countless plug-ins that do basically whatever you'd like. It has a deep community with thousands of developers. It will scale well as your blog grows in areas that Blogger just will not.
This blog name is unique so I'm sure it's available if you choose to go with the free Word Press hosting.
Check it out:
http://wordpress.com/ - hosted by Word Press
http://wordpress.org/ - would need own host
P.S. I found you via Twitter (kevinmcbride)
I just tried to email something, but got a return email saying that it failed. Email is post@lft411.com right?
Let me know asap!
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