Grand Strand Bloggers

I volunteered to be the curator for Myrtle Beach events for an interesting project, Jon Udell’s elm city event aggregator. The idea is to gather together as many event feeds as possible for an area, in particular ones via iCal format. A lot of people have tools that create and/or use these calendar feeds but there aren’t many places where they are published. I turned up a neat one with the tide tables for Myrtle Beach.

It’s taken many months, but one of the reasons I got involved at all was to have a widget we can drop in the sidebar with upcoming events. Currently it is showing the next 30, which can be adjusted up or down if people would like it. I like having it there, it gives a good picture of the current zeitgeist in the area when you look at the site.

As always, please give feedback on what you think. Does this make the site better, worse, what? Also, please keep sending in those links to other different Grand Strand Bloggers. This party always needs more people.

One of the original few Grand Strand Bloggers, Paul Reynolds has a new business. Today is opening day for the store he co-owns, The Baker’s Dog. It is at 6703 North Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach. This is a soft launch and there will be a formal grand opening later but for now you can go and buy the pet in your life some tasty holiday treats. The store also has a blog that you can read to follow along with their adventures. Congratulations!

If, like several other participant in the Grand Strand blogging scene, you are active on FriendFeed, be aware that we have a room there for Grand Strand news and issues. If you are active in Twitter or any other micro-blogging platform I’d urge you to sign up for a FriendFeed account and join our room. It is useful for finding other bloggers in the area, for learning news, setting up lunch and any number of fun uses. Come participate and help tech up the beach!

I’m here at Converge South in Greensboro NC and just attended a session on hyper-local blogging. It both made me happy and sad about the whole idea – happy about the potential in sites such as this and sad at the neglect it has received over the summer. I’d like to declare the month of November as a “grand reopening.” We have an exciting thing here, so I’ll do my best to fan these coals back into a flame. Don’t forget, any local blogger can get an account on here and post. Help me out, friends!

Our own Andre Pope is live blogging his wife Heidi’s labor as they bring new baby Memphis into the world. Congratulations to the Popes. Here’s wishing the best to all of them!

If you are seeing this, the host move is completed and all is well. Fire away, citizens of the Grand Strand and/or the blogosphere!

With the CREATE Conference only a few months away its time to start to unveil some of the marketing materials behind it all. The first being the CREATE logo! Team members over at 803 Labs (new website slowly in the works) knocked it out for you to enjoy!

Once some of the details become clear we will have banner ads, cubes, logos, icons etc. for all of you to help get the words out. Stayed Tuned For More! 

Today marks the 10 year anniversary for the coined term “weblog” by pioneer Jorn Barger.
See Jorn’s own thoughts for new bloggers to become better bloggers.

Today marks the last call for name suggestions for the conference. So for all of you that have had on your thinking caps its time to shine.

I read this little post/question presented by Mark Cuban and wandered what the Grand Strand blog community felt?
Understandingly Mr. Cuban get 100’s of comments per post, while we may get far less – which make it easier to police – how do you feel about about monitoring your comments?