Real Worcester

duncan's picture

It's worth keeping an eye on this site. Looks like they are aggregating blog and website content and sprinkling in some original stuff. Looking nice.

they say that "If you don't check every day, you won't know Worcester."

that's a pretty bold statement but still, check it out.

www.realworcester.com

Ronaldo's picture

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cool and all, but still up in the air as to what the 10 worst streets are or the best burgers seeing as they are bulleted, but no content when clicked... (bein cheeky)


I'm out getting my abs airbrushed on...leave a message

Ernie's picture

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I tried to read about the 5 best Vietnamese restaurants and the 10 best bars and I can't get to the articles on there. Maybe it just does not like Firefox.. oh well.

duncan's picture

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I think it's very new so I am sure they are working that stuff out.

I like the idea of a aggregator like this. However I use www.google.com/reader to manage all of this sort of content so I probably wont be checking it "every day". If the original content is cool, I would.

mscrystallee's picture

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Yeah how lamn...Every link is COMING SOON....Should wait to have the goodies up like 10 best until they are ready to view

gaberollins's picture

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Website soft opening? Haha

Looks like what they are trying to do is a good idea. Let's see where it goes.

sellecks moustache's picture

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the site isn't completely live, from what I hear.

wormtown's picture

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I dunno, just looks like a weak RSS feed reader just about worcester. This just duplicates my worcester feeds folder on bloglines.com. They need to be selective about which posts actually get posted to the site, just blindly reposting every single one of Jeff's Wormtown Taxi posts doesn't provide any value.

Agreed with above comments, need to wait to see what the original content is like, until then it just appears they are just relying on other people's content.

punky's picture

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Hey, how did you get that link? That website has not even launched yet. That content doesn't exist yet, those are just empty links to see what it would look like. Man, there really are no secrets in this town.

duncan's picture

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It's not a secret when it's a public website. Google has already indexed it so it's not exactly hard to find.

If you know the people you should recommend this plugin for Wordpress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members-only/

I was just saying keep an eye on the site, I could tell that it was new. Sorry if I messed anything up.

Wormtowntaxi's picture

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I did a WHOIS for the URL and e-mailed the registered owner... he says the RealWorcester website is scheduled to be officially launched next week.

punky's picture

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I was helping with the Worcester blog list. I just didn't want him to think I was a big mouth.

punky's picture

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If anyone else has a Worcester blog. Post your url here. I'll get it to him.
Thanks.

Wormtowntaxi's picture

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It was kinda weird at first, punky, cuz each time I looked it seemed like my posts were the only ones being aggregated there. So I'm thinkin' "who the heck is this?" I took a look just now, and it's got a lot more sites coming up.

I've been wondering when someone would come up with a decent Woo central type of website like this. (...something that wasn't part of the two dozen fatcats in town hiring some marketing weasel to put up a vapid promo for the city... that ends up going dead after a week and a half. ...know what I mean?)

I would guess that the el-launcheroso link love spectacular for RealWorcester next week could approach cosmic proportions! After all, there's probably 29,000 daily online Worcesterites that don't even know there IS a local blogosphere.

Somebody should print up a bunch of RealWorcester.com stickers and plaster them all over town.

Linnea's picture

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Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know that the official launch for the Real Worcester site is today. The funny thing is that a month ago when this thread popped up I had no idea what it was, but then I was approached to contribute, and now, well here I am.

We now have a Real Worcester blog going with original content being posted each day from some familiar names/faces, so please check it out. We have a group of regular weekly contributors as well as occasional contributors, and we're always looking for more, so please contact me at edi...@realworcester.com if you're interested.

Suggestions/questions/comments are also welcome. Thanks everyone!
Linnea

Linnea's picture

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Seriously, not one of you could point out my typo on the first word, in the first sentence, of my first post?!?!

I only read through it 3 times.

Okay new game, I will buy a beer for whoever points out the most (valid) typos to me each week.

Stacy's picture

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Linnea wrote:
Okay new game, I will buy a beer for whoever points out the most (valid) typos to me each week.

What the hell! I don't want them pointing out my typos. UGH!

So, I have signed on to post a weekly listing of local non-profit (fundraising) events where people may want to volunteer their time or resources. I will pull several events of interest and highlight the organization. So, if anyone has an event they would like exposure for please email me links and or any prudent information... slr...@yahoo.com

Thanks!