http://www.metblogs.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:47:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In mid-2003 Jason DeFillippo and I met up in person for the first time at a Starbucks on Melrose Avenue to talk about an idea we both had for a cool new blog about Los Angeles. The concept of a group blog didn't really exist and when people thought "local ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2010/01/28/metblogs/ Astute readers and people with eyes alike will notice that things look a little different around here. It's true, we've given ourselves a facelift! Yes it's very exciting, but try to contain yourself. Your family and coworkers will thank you for it. But since we're talking about it, might as ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2009/08/27/all-things-new-and-shiny/ New site launch: Urban Journal Behind the scenes here there is so much being worked on and I'm really excited to launch something we've been working on for a few months in one form or another. After reading Emergency and spending some time really looking into a lot of the issues ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2009/05/18/urban-journal-launches/ This is an exciting morning for us here at Metblogs. We've just launched a blog in San Diego which not only marks our 57th city, but also our 6th city in California making it our most popular state by far. San Diego joins Orange County and Los Angeles to fill ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2009/02/17/57-san-diego/ A few weeks ago I was having coffee with Joi Ito and he mentioned that he'd love to feature his Metblogs posts on his own blog, or point out ones he really liked but just a list of headline links wasn't really doing it for him and we talked about ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2009/01/19/new-feature-embed-a-post-on-your-own-site/ We've been getting a lot of interest from new potential authors recently, which makes perfect sense as we're in the middle of tearing apart and fixing up some of the systems that make that process run smooth like... um... like something really smooth! In the meantime, if you'd like to ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2009/01/13/come-blog-with-us/ We're excited to announce that we've teamed up with the folks at outside.in to bring Story Maps to most of our US sites as of this weekend. These little maps which you'll find on the right side of the sites will give you a visual representation of where what we're ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/12/01/story-maps-are-live/ Only initial reports at the moment, but we're hearing 8 people have been killed and 77 wounded overnight in Karachi where riots broke out. Karachi Metblogs has some info and will be updating as they have more. http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/11/29/riots-in-karachi/ Late Wednesday night a series of coordinated terrorists attacks hit Mumbai, India. Mumbai Metblogs is covering it. Our thoughts go out to all our friends there and hopefully we'll get more information as soon as it's available. http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/11/26/mumbai-terror-attacks/ The folks over at New Orleans Metblogs have been doing double time covering Hurricane Gustav and from preparations up through the current mandatory evacuations. Some of these folks like Craig were there for Hurricane Katrina and have seen some of this before, know what to expect, and have much more ... http://www.metblogs.com/news/2008/08/31/hurricane-gustav-new-orleans/