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GET A BLOG: Amy's Self Indulgence (UPDATED)

Posted on March 29, 2005 by dailyheights

Amy, one of the ProHo’ers who took us up on the Kind-of-Free Blog offer, is already up and running–told you it was easy. Check out the The Selfindulgence Blah-g, in which Amy says: “inspired by the awesome Apartment Therapy web site I am posting some photos of my recently renovated kitchen.

This could be you! Secret codes are still available. And no, DH is not getting a kickback from the Typepad/Movable Type/Six Apart people.

UPDATED: Amy has a great post today about a Corcoran open house in her building: “I don’t think you could get $260k for this place if it was in Manhattan. I see they have sheduled another open house for next weekend…”

Reference: [GET A BLOG: Typepad 90 Days Free with Secret DAILYHEIGHTS Code]

NYC Bloggers: Are You on The List?

Posted on March 25, 2005 by dailyheights

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Despite our strenuous and quite self-important insistence that this site is “more than just a blog,” not to mention our pretentious use of the “Royal We” (Pluralis Majestatis) in posts clearly authored by only one person, DAILY HEIGHTS is humbled, and honored, to be among the 4,516 entries in nyc bloggers, a project to bring together New York City’s blogs, organized geographically.

According to mike, liz, and matt, “The idea is simple: A map of the city that shows where the bloggers are, organized by subway stop. Find out who’s blogging in your neighborhood!”

We checked out this site two months ago, and it looked pretty much abandoned – tons of dead links, and so on. Now, the site looks revitalized, and they are actively seeking volunteers for this not-for-profit project:

1. Volunteers to go through our backlog of blog requests.
2. Programmers who know ASP, VBScript and MS Access to help create the password backend.
3. Designer to update the map.
4. Reviewers.
5. Anyone who can help them figure out how to receive RSS feeds.
6. Someone to help them find a new host.

GET A BLOG: Typepad 90 Days Free with Secret DAILYHEIGHTS Code

Posted on March 24, 2005 by dailyheights

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DAILY HEIGHTS hooks you up: Typepad is an easy to use, feature-packed hosted blogging service. Setting up a Typepad account takes about 5 minutes. You can get a 30-day free trial at the Typepad site, but 30 days turns out to be remarkably short in blog time.

Solution: The people at Six Apart set up a special 90-day free trial account code for 10 people who read this site. Contact DH for the code.

Ninety days is just about the perfect amount of time to determine whether you want to (1) stay with Typepad, which will cost you $4.95 or more a month, or (2) like we did, get your own server space and install Movable Type, the powerful (though far from perfect! argh!) engine behind Typepad. Movable Type costs up to $99, depending on the type of license, or FREE if you are willing to forge ahead without the help of Six Apart’s surprisingly knowledgeable and helpful technical support people.

CONFESSION TIME

Posted on February 17, 2005 by dailyheights

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I already told you this site is for
your benefit. It turns out that I also had a selfish motive.

It all started
in 1998, when I discovered Slashdot and
convinced myself that every urban neighborhood needed a grassroots news site of
its own.

Then recently, the Newspaper
Association of America asked me to write an article about how “citizen
journalists” are starting to create “hyper-local” news for ridiculously small
readerships. I started playing around with a trial account with Typepad. Now, Prospect Heights has is own
“hyper-local” news outlet.

Why is this important now? For starters, those fancy
Inter-net “web-sites” that cost tens-of-thousands to develop back in the
dot-com days are now pretty much free for anybody to build, thanks largely to
bloghosts. So you can imagine what career newspaper people must be thinking.
And in terms of getting the word out, Google’s near-proletarian
indifference to the P/E ratio of your publisher’s stock must have some
chilling effect.

So, go take a look at my article, “My Neighborhood News”
and the sidebar, “Who
Says You Can’t Get Micro-Local News in Print?” in which I was able to give
shout-outs to some of your blogs, LiveJournal accounts, and other Internet
distractions (but not all, I’m afraid).