photo: JeanineAnderson
Given size of this list, maybe I better clean out my RSS feed reader more frequently. Or maybe you like having a billion Capitol Hill links to click on a Sunday.
- Brunch yet? Crave gone, cheese blintz recipe not.
- A few Hill Oscar parties to choose from if you don’t mind mixing Hollywood glam with your newfound financial sobriety.
- Metro may cut bus service due to drop in sales tax revenue.
- Hill homeless shelters report rise in numbers, need as economy worsens.
- Can somebody please explain this site? Seems to be mashing together several kinda invasive databases to report on people buying expensive homes. Here’s another report for a new purchase on Broadway.
- Capitol Hill a defensible ridge above economic battery? Kid clothing retailer Flora & Henri will make their last stand in their Capitol Hill location in the Loveless Building and online.
- Puget Sound Biz Journal cites a few Cap Hill purveyors of ‘comfort’ for bucking the downturn trend.
- Get snooty about your suds. Smith hosting beer dinner Monday night.
- Also Monday, Lifelong AIDS Alliance benefit at CHS sponsor PizzaFusion.
- Artemis closing down for remodel, retooling. Open again in spring.
- Group behind foie gras protests at Lark files suit to extend state’s animal cruelty laws to livestock.
- Transit zoning bill winds its way through Olympia.
- Meanwhile, this crazy ass bill proposes to cut biz tax on newspaper publishers, magazine slingers.
- How you might pay for CHS in the future.
- I mostly avoid discussing CHS from a business perspective. You come here to read news and information about Capitol Hill, not my musings on modern media, I’m sure. But the Seattle PI did something on Friday that has media nerds around these parts pretty excited — in addition to featuring its own articles and pictures, the PI’s homepage began linking to news on other sites including the West Seattle ‘hood blog. Seattlest sums up the momentousness of the move. One of these days, the PI will link to CHS. This changes the game in all sorts of great and amazing ways.
- A loose confederacy of bloggers, journalists and media types has organized a forum on the changing Seattle news landscape. The first session is Thursday night, 2/26 at 7p downtown at City Hall. Interesting panel and a good opportunity to be part of the change.
- CHS is powered by Neighborlogs (I am employee #3 of 3 at the Central District start-up). We’re gathering Seattle Neighborlogs site owners including the good people from TheSouthLake.com, InterbayDistrict.com and Ravennanation.com for a meetup Tuesday night, 7p at PizzaFusion (yeah, those guys again!. Stop by if you’d like to learn more about Neighborlogs or want to buy a ‘hood blogging start-up a beer.
- More CHS business. Happy to see more activity in our CHS Classifieds — look! Two Help Wanted postings. Very cool.
- BTW, this buzz around Yelp’s business practices has me rethinking CHS reviews. We have features that enable business reviews but I haven’t utilized given how much I like Yelp and the community the site has developed. Time to rethink that?
I just caught the Pemco goats commercial for the first time during the Oscars — the one that was filmed on the edges of I-5 Shores. The hill looks great and the goats are so cute! (I don’t watch a heckuva lot of TV so maybe it’s been running for a long time…)
The blockshopper website is a little creepy. Sure, it’s all public information, but carried too far.
On another note, I noticed SeattlePI linking to external sites today and wasn’t sure if it was new or not. Is this how they’re planning on staying in business?
I wouldn’t say linking is how they’re “going to stay in business.” It’s just one part of the transformation that they’ll have to go through to turn from a 20th century newspaper business model, to a 21st century internet news business model.
From my POV the PI is done, they’re not going to be able to stay in business in their current form. But hopefully someone will be able to keep the PI brand going using an updated business model.
(DISCLAIMER – I may be slightly out of the loop in PI related news, I’ve been out of the country since Friday)