The German Village Oktoberfest is in the Arena District in Downtown Columbus, Sep 28, 2007 - Sep 30, 2007. A new location? McFerson Commons in the Arena District. The German Village Oktoberfest is “one of the top 100 events in North America!” according to the German Village Societies website! Polka music, traditional food, Marketplatz, beer and more…
Put on your leiderhosen…
Driving through the “four corners” in Powell this week something is definitely missing.
The building on the northeast corner of the intersection of Powell Rd and Liberty Rd is gone. It had been an antique store for many years. Long ago it had been a hardware store.
In “Historic ‘four corners’ building demolished” in This Week News Powell says of the demolition of the 117 year old building:
“Powell now owns a 10-by-60 foot strip of right of way at the northeast corner of the intersection, preserving room for possible turn lanes.
City council earlier this year entered into a contract with developer Matt Stavroff, paying him $130,000 for the right of way, in case future city councils decided to add up to four turn lanes.
When the debris is cleared away, not only will Powell have room at the intersection, Stavroff will have a clean slate to start construction on a new, 5,163-square-foot commercial building.”
Powell is becoming a mixture of the old and the new designed to look old. There is new office and retail on the east side of S. Liberty Rd.
Down the street at 77 S. Liberty Rd. an old school is an office building. Old houses in Powell are shops and offices.
Many of the shops use their front porches and small front lawns as space to display their wares if the Central Ohio weather cooperates.
If you look up high on the facade of the building on the southwest corner, it says I.O.O.F. which I think stands for ‘International Order of Odd Fellows’? A lodge or fraternal organization?
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Look at my latest widget in my sidebar… BlogRush (or is it Blog Rush?) it says “From The Blogosphere” at the top. Black with orange writing boy am I glad I got rid of the red header here.
It’s BlogRush.
BlogRush is a “Blog Syndication Network.” It is designed to get more traffic to your blog. Go to the BlogRush website and watch the presentation on how it works.
It’s free.
You show a feed for other’s blogs and get featured on other people’s blogs.
Either I am getting better at this or it was very easy to add. It says I can filter out content by URL….. if I don’t want to provide a feed to entries on a particular blog, they are filtered.
Just grab your blogs RSS feed and sign up.
If you put up an entry on any blog about BlogRush don’t put a second instance of the widget in as an example in the body of the blog post. That’s a big no-no, it says don’t on the BlogRush Dashboard.
My feed is real estate. I am not sure I really care that much about non Central Ohio traffic here. Or that anyone is going to click on this blogs feed from other parts of the country. I am not going to get real estate business from it necessarily, from what I have seen there is some decent mortgage info there. I am not good about blogging about mortgages, finance. Then again many mortgage blogs are kind of spammy.
What I would love to see is BlogRush or someone do a local or regional widget. I would rather have an RSS feed of the Columbus food blogs and the Columbus sports blogs and heck even the Columbus political blogs… Columbus environmental blogs… My Columbus Blog Roll serves that purpose to an extent but boy I sure would love to have the headlines of new Central Ohio bloggers entries here on a feed.
I could see some of the Blog Rush categories being good for some Central Ohio blogs though…
art & design
automotive
business
career & jobs
celebrity
computers & internet
education
entertainment
environment
finance & investing
food & drink
health & medicine
histrory
hobbies
home & garden
humor
law & legal
lifestyle
marketing
music
news & media
parenting & family
personal diary
pets
philosophy
photography
politics
real estate
religion & spirituality
sports
technology
travel
writing & literature
video games
There are more BlogRush flavors coming soon… or colors, according to an email I received. That was an early criticism, the black with orange writing looked garish on many a blog’s sidebar. My blog is so ugly I don’t have to worry about that!
There are heavy duty issues with “cheaters” using the widget. Imagine that. BlogRush was automatically approving blogs when the widget was introduced last weekend but they are going back through them now to remove the “cheaters.”
BlogRush does not work on WordPress.com blogs! Works on WordPress.org obviously and many other blog platforms… but it won’t work on WordPress.com
A list on Forbes.com that came out last month said Columbus is the 19th Best City in the US for singles.
better than Miami? Orlando? Memphis? Portland? Tampa? (and Cleveland and Cinci… but of course we knew that!)
An article in The Other Paper that said gymnast Paul Hamm (24) is Columbus most eligible bachelor… according to the list on Forbes.com. The Other Paper said Hamm is Columbus most eligible bachelor in a sorta snarky way…
I will have to reread it… there are 40 cities ranked in various categories.
Singles 14
Nightlife 25
Coolness 40
Culture 19
Job Growth 29
Online Dating 7
Cost Of Living Alone 8
Does being number 40 in coolness mean Columbus is the least cool of the 40 cities?
A woman “I know” in California is not a fan of Yelp.
I had been invited, joined Yelp and forgot about it. When the California woman mentioned Yelp and said “don’t ever do Yelp” (or something like that… ) I went online and did some reviews. Perverse? Me? You bettcha.
I can’t say much about the CA woman’s beef with Yelp because she shared it semi privately. I think it was mostly a misunderstanding… It has to do with reviews she posted herself. About herself. It does not seem to be the point of “yelping.” I think she may have run into “the Yelp Elite Squad” … more about them below.
Anyway her saying “don’t use Yelp” sent me to Yelp… to try to do a restaurant review while the experience is fresh in my brain. I found a bunch of old dead restauarants, some that I still mourn. I did obits for those restaurants.
The Baja Fresh in Worthington was my favorite place for lunch until they suddenly closed, two years ago? Three years ago?
The Baja Fresh at Polaris was one of my favorite places for dinner until they closed suddenly (same time as the Worthington Baja Fresh) a couple of years ago.
La Costa on Worthington-Galena… my other favorite place for dinner… I think it closed just weeks after Baja Fresh … a conspiracy to deny me of Mexican food?
Those three restaurants came up with address on Yelp … or former address just by putting the restaurant name in. So I reviewed them and did an R.I.P.
Yelp did not have the info on the Bone Fish Grill at Polaris…which is still open which I wanted to do a review of… but why should I look up an address… maybe I don’t really get Yelp. Do I like… or dislike any restaurant, service enough to do the research to do a review? What’s in it for me? Making Yelp a better place?
I did do reviews for two still very much alive (I hope) Central Ohio Mexican restaurants, including one of my favorites, La Hacienda Real on Sinclair.
Pierre Calzadilla invited me to Yelp. Pierre is with Trulia.com a real estate web 2.0 company.
Yelp even has an “Elite Squad” of “the coolest yelpers.”
“The Yelp Elite Squad is a crack team of the coolest yelpers. The kind of people who love to write colorful, witty reviews about the places they dig or detest and everything in between. They are the people that tip you off to the little hole in the wall eatery you never knew existed or a doctor you can trust. They are trendsetters and influencers, both on and off the site. We created the Yelp Elite Squad as a way of recognizing these star members.
Applicants always have lots of reviews of great local businesses and services, but more importantly the Yelp members that get in are known for having reviews that are insightful, irreverent and personal. “
I am not cut out for that, I don’t have that much passion about anything… really. I’ll just write the Yelp Columbus restaurant obits.
