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You can now listen right on the blog, click the play button above. This has been one of my favorite shows. Rapid fire topics with lot’s of great information and insight. We’re redefining content in the city!

Topics

• Jacksonville Jazz Festival – Rain or Shine
• Downtown Demolition – 118 Main Street
• Convert the Shipyards to a mixed income Transit Oriented Development
• World Cup in Jacksonville
• Free Burritos at Hightide Burrito
• Sanctuary Community Garden at 8th and Pearl in Springfield
• Wine Cellar at Three Layers in Springfield
• Times-Union Addresses Morris Publishing Woes via @editormarilyn on Twitter
• Johnny Rotten becomes Jonathan Rotten
• Jacksonville Observer and Hyperlocal Journalism
• Kids Fest at The Riverside Arts Market with Justin Roberts
• Yo Gabba Gabba

Recommendations

• Joey: Infrastructurist.com
• Jonathan: Smashing Magazine
• Tony: Streetsblog.org and My Commute Sucks

Google Reader helped me get a grasp on all my news sources. I’ve found a great new workflow with Google Reader that allows me to fly through 60-70 Jacksonville related posts per day. I enjoy using the share functionality for items I don’t have time to post on Urban Jacksonville. You can view my shared items page or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Jazz Festival to Offer Two Bike Valets Stations
Bike valet is growing in popularity, it seems the city really sees the value. Listen to Matt Uhrig talk about bike valet on Urban Jacksonville Weekly #14. This week’s show features guest co-host Tiffany Valla from the Office of Special Events. We’ll be talking about the Jazz Festival.

The The Jacksonville Observer launched this weekend. It’s a cool idea but there’s is too much syndicated content for me. I’d love to see more Jacksonville related stories. Tom Patton, who writes for The Jacksonville Observer, talks about the new site.

a business model is emerging up that has local people covering local stories and leaving the big national stories alone. With so many outlets devoted to the big national stories, local coverage sometimes seems to get short shrift. In hyper-local journalism, the marketplace may again be giving us insight as to what people want to read and understand. One might think that’s counter-intuitive on the “worldwide web”, and yet it speaks to a readership that is interested in their communities, and have found the web to be a perfect delivery vehicle for that content.

It’s revolutionary for Jacksonville and I commend Austin Cassidy for pulling it together. I have a plan like this too, but I’m laying back for a second to work on some other projects.

JaxScene posts some traffic numbers and reminds everyone they forgot to tell JaxScene happy birthday. Happy birthday on 1-year JaxScene. It’s a feat of dedication and love for the community, we’re lucky to have you.

Tough Junkie album out soon. Help Junkie reach 300 presales, via JaxScene

Shantytown Robbed via The Out Box.

Riverside Arts Market from Michael Walter on Vimeo.