Well, I gotta say, I’m pretty impressed with City’s new website:

Rochester City Newspaper

Gone are the sour strains of the 90’s, and the new site has a much more comfortable look and feel with a lot of great features.  For example, check out the beautiful events calendar they’ve got!  Better yet, they allow people to submit their own events to the calendar. 

Of course, no modern site would be complete without a feed or three, and City appears to have gotten this figured out.  We shall see: the D&C has a feed, but it’s a once-a-day publication, at best, which is totally unreliable.

Restaurant searches, upcoming events, the new site has (almost) the works.  Certainly, it is an unquestionable acknowledgment of the Web 2.0 strategy which has thusfar gone either ignored or patronized by other large media outlets in the city (see above).

Harumph.  That was supposed to have been DFE’s niche.  Well, it appears I’ve moved too late on my ideas for DFE and my work is now really cut out for me.  I’ve got some ground to make up, here.  Ironically, today is the day I had set aside to work on some of these projects.  How’s that for a kick in the pants?

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