Whoa, it’s up…!<\/p>\n
Announcing the soft launch of my baby, what I and my partners have been working on: MetroCascade<\/a>, the<\/em> local news aggregator for Victoria, BC.<\/p>\n The site was up a while ago, but now it has a great new look, much of the behind-the-scenes work is done, and the upfront work can begin in earnest: populating the site with more content by finding additional local bloggers for the “read” cascade; getting the “see” cascade going by tapping into all the amazing local photography talent; and inputting events data into the “do” cascade.<\/p>\n Oh, and working on MetroCascade’s own blog…! \ud83d\ude42 Every start-up is supposed to have its own blog, right? (Somehow, we’ve sort of neglected that…)<\/p>\n What does MetroCascade<\/a> do? The main “cascade” is the Read<\/em> cascade, in the middle: that’s where we aggregate local bloggers and local news, all on the Google model (i.e., you the reader get a link that sends you away, to the blog or news page). On the left, there’s the See<\/em> cascade, which right now is unfinished, but will feature local photographers – again, “google model,” you get a thumbnail, click on it and it’ll send you to the photographer’s site (could be Flickr<\/a>, Picasa<\/a>, GPhoto<\/a>, or another photo service site, or could be their own website). And on the right, there’s the Do<\/em> cascade, which will be our events calendar. Believe it or not, there’s a lot to be put into the Do<\/em> cascade – Victoria has plenty of events – and venues<\/em>. We’re still working on getting that up and running; right now I think it’s going to depend on some inputting of data by hand, but soon many venues will be automatically included.<\/p>\n So, in short: the Read<\/em> cascade is the most “populated” right now, and of course we’re still looking for more content. The See<\/em> cascade should be coming along really soon, as should the Do<\/em> cascade. It’s our soft launch, and slowly but surely we’re going to get a solid content build-up.<\/p>\n This is for you, Victoria: show yourself to yourselves, all of your selves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whoa, it’s up…! Announcing the soft launch of my baby, what I and my partners have been working on: MetroCascade, the local news aggregator for Victoria, BC. The site was up a while ago, but now it has a great new look, much of the behind-the-scenes work is done, and the upfront work can begin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651,1418],"tags":[4531,4530,4529],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local_not_global","category-victoria","tag-aggregator","tag-local_news","tag-metrocascade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}