If you haven’t already, head over to JaxDaily.com a new blog about Jacksonville. JaxDaily normally posts links to select news stories with a short description in their Suggested Reading posts. Check out today’s Selected Reading for Thursday.
In addition to select news stories they publish original content about twice a week. Like this review of Tavis Smiley’s appearance in Jacksonville or this article about local names running for State Office.
One of the more recent articles that caught my eye was Popular Local Websites. Jax Daily published traffic numbers for local websites with data gleaned from Alexa.com. Here are numbers from the local blogs section. Yes, screw you JaxBars.com! Ha ha ha.
LOCAL BLOGS & OTHER SITES
OrangePark.com - 1,891 visitors
MetJax.com Forums - 1,741 visitors
Jax Night Life - 1,444 visitors
UrbanJacksonville.info - 1,319 visitors
JaxBars.com - 846 visitors
I talked with Austin Cassidy, one of the main contributors to the blog, and asked hime about his inspiration for starting JaxDaily.com. He had this to say about Jax Daily:
Last Fall I ran for the Soil & Water Board and won a seat on it, and during that time I got to basically see every corner of Jacksonville - both during the day and at 3am… and that’s kind of what inspired us (Stephen, his business partner) to revisit the idea. So we decided that once the campaign was over we’d invest in some digital cameras and give it a shot.
I think the site is pretty good. They focus on Jacksonville as a whole instead of the hyperlocal approach like Urban Jacksonville or Metro Jacksonville. One thing I would definately recommend is to link the masthead back to the homepage. I tried to click on the masthead about 5 times to get back to to the homepage. I also think adding a relevant, or irrelevant, picture to each post would make the blog more appealing. Maybe just grab photos from the Jacksonville Flickr pool and add them to your Suggested Reading posts if you don’t have a photo.
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hey…you made the Metro section, “…Joey Marchey of Urbanjacksonville.Info…”
I saw that too. Way to go Joey. No mention of the Daily Record or Folio which both covered this last week. Also no mention of Walter Thomas Operations Chief at DVI who put the whole Catholic Charities thing together.
Why the love for Joey?
I smell blogsolidation. Have you been approached for buyout yet?
Focusing on Jacksonville as a whole is nice, though it’s certainly something I’d read only after I read about “hyperlocal” activities. Too much to sift through perhaps?
Yes Tony - blogsolidation is the word of the day!
New daily read!
Tank- How can I have missed your blog? I’ve been to your site I thought, has it changed?
I damn sure would have seen the dang black kids gimmick.
The blogolution will not be televised.
BTW, I love my slingshot; it makes a good conversation starter at my committee meetings. They spelled Fredrick Douglass with one s which is minor league.
enough about me
Not sure why the love. Maybe Karen Mathis has a thing for me. Ha! Blogsolidation yes! So Tony, do you think the Catholic Charities thing is good for Downtown?
The article people are referring to is Homeless Sweep up downtown. I’m quoted down near the bottom. I’m not sure if Karen chose that headline or editorial did. When I was talking with Karen she made it clear to me that one of the requirements to work for Catholic Charities is that you have somewhere to live. Maybe that just means being enrolled in one of the local shelters.
Maybe John C from the Homeless Family Blog can clear up the discrepancy.
Joey, thanks for the plug! More photos and more original stories are on the agenda for things we want to add.
And yes, the masthead is now a clickable link back to the homepage. :)
Nice site. We all keep this up and with just a series of a few sites, you can anything and everything that is happening with Jacksonville and not just when DOT can’t spell on their electronic highway information signs.
-Jim.
PS: Metjax is up to 4,800.