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Or should it be a question: Columbus, Ohio’s capital of blogging?

Calling all Central Ohio real estate bloggers…. I usually don’t talk to other Central Ohio real estate bloggers via this blog or Discover Columbus but I did want to be sure everyone lets Sellsius° Blog know that Columbus “oughta” be one of the stops on Blog Tour USA before Cleveland or Cincinnati try to usurp the title of Ohio’s capital of blogging. The Blog Tour USA

I think Columbus Ohio has more real estate blogs than Cleveland and Cincinnati but I could be wrong.

Maybe Real Living’s blog is not a Columbus Blog… but Real Living is based in Columbus…and Real Living is encouraging Real Living agents to blog.

Take a look at Pittsburgh Home’s Daily list of 750 blogs across the US half the Ohio blogs Robert’s got on the list are in Columbus Ohio. There are Ohio blogs in Stark, County, Highland County, Lake County, a Youngtown Ohio blog as well as a number of real estate blogs in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

There are more ActiveRainers in Central Ohio than in the rest of the state I believe:

Delaware - 30
Fairfield - 9
Franklin - 146
Licking - 6
Knox - 13
Madison - 6
Pickaway - 3
Union - 7

With total Ohio ActiveRainers at 622 (most of them inactive… but proportional number of active members vs. inactive members to other markets?) I am sure Columbus is the capital of Ohio ActiveRain- ing

And it’s not just real estate bloggers the Sellsius° Blog guys want to meet traveling and blogging across the US in July. It’s real estate agents, others in the real estate industry and blogging communities… real people.

pssst… if you are a member of the real estate community and want to learn a little bit more about blogging join us on ActiveRain.

public smoking… The Health Department thought the statewide smoking ban could be enforced by the end of April the last time I wrote about the public smoking ban here.

Close… enforcement started on May 3, 2007 according to many, many, many sources in Ohio:

Akron - Fire lit under smoking ban by Tracy Wheeler, the Beacon Journal medical writer

Cincinnati - This time for real: No smoking

Cleveland - The ban begins according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Dayton - State ready to show teeth behind its ban on smoking according to Anthony Gottschlich Staff Writer. I can tell by the article that Dayton did not have a ban before the statewide ban. I would not have expected them to.

Columbus - State to start penalizing for smoking in public places according to Business First Columbus

We have not had smoking in public in most of Central Ohio in a year… or more. I wonder about Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron, Toledo, Youngstown, Zanesville and the rest of the state, whether other cities had a ban.What interested me Googling the story was how many papers in the tobacco producing states carried the story. It was news in Kentucky, West Virginia, and North Carolina. I saw an Indiana paper, that carried the story of Ohio enforcing the smoking ban but not a lot of other papers in the midwest or elsewhere…carried the news story.

I worked with people moving from California in 2001 and 2002 who were shocked by public smoking and how many people in Central Ohio still smoked.

Previously on Columbus Best Blog (the old one… that is now Discover Columbus) about smoking:

Ohio’s Ballot Issues - Smoking Ban
Columbus Alfresco Dining
Smokin sort of a history of Central Ohio smoking bans.

Carole Cohen of Cleveland asks “Do you remember Yuri Gagarin?”

Nope, I don’t. I think when I was in school Gagarin’s accomplishment was not mentioned except in hushed tones. I do remember American rockets (is that what astronaut John Glenn went to space in?) A rocket or a spacecraft?

The Google special anniversary April 12, 2007 logo may join the holiday logos on Google someday.

Did you see the Google image today in honor of Yuri Gagarin today? Carole wrote that Wikipedia calls him the “Columbus of the Cosmos” for exploring space in 1961. The first man in space.

My eyes were still sleepy when I saw the Google on my screen. I thought it was something to do with baseball. Is the second o in Google a “sputnik” or Soviet spacecraft or is that the moon? It looked like a baseball to me..this morning. I was trying to figure out the world and baseball and the funny little fellas at the end were all about. Then I clicked on the Google image to see what the story was and went to the Wikipedia entry about Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Nope I don’t remember that.

Did the US send a man into space just a few weeks later? The photo above says it was the

“May 5, 1961 launch of Redstone rocket and NASA’s Mercury spacecraft #7 Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard Jr. on the United States’ first manned sub-orbital spaceflight. (Atlas rockets were used to launch Mercury’s orbital missions.)”

Less than a month later the US space program sent a man into space? I don’t remember that either but I do remember later … Ohioan John Glenn was the hero to school children and a few years later Ohioan Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon?

Thanks Carole. Thanks Google.

The image of the Mercury Spacecraft above is from Wikipedia and is in the public domain (not copyrighted) according to Wikipedia. The image of the Soviet spacecraft model at the top is also from Wikipedia. The photo is not copyrighted according to Wikipedia… the little ball shaped thing on the top is what I thought the second O in Google was after I thought it wasn’t a baseball after all. Was that what fell back to the earth at the end of the space journey?

Thanks Wikipedia.

Springfield is not Columbus but it is close… It is worth the short drive to vist the The Westcott House in my opinion… I got an email about a lecture… “Sustainable Landscapes: Past and Present” which is NOT at The Wescott House but is related to this Frank Lloyd Wright gem in Ohio.

As garden season starts… really the snow will stop soon won’t it? … there’s a lecture on “Sustainable Landscapes: Past and Present” tomorrow, Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.

Carol J. H. Yetken, CYLA Design Associates, Oak Park, Illionois will lecture about sustainable landscapes.

the email I got says:

“What is sustainable landscape? Can a thoughtful design process improve the quality of life and secure a healthy environment for future generations? Can one learn from the past? Carol J. H. Yetken will address these questions while talking about the different approaches to the art of landscaping, past and present. A practicing landscape architect, Ms. Yetken is a founder of CYLA Design Associate. She also teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified Professional, and her firm is a member of the U. S. Green Building Council. Ms. Yetken developed the landscape reconstruction plan for The Westcott House site.”

Location: Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, Wittenberg University, Bayley Auditorium (at the corner of Bill Edwards Drive & Plum Street)

Single Lecture Admission: $15, WHF Members: $10, Free Admission for Students With Valid I.D.

For tickets, Call: 937-327-9291. Tickets will also be available at the Auditorium 15 minutes prior to all the lectures

We of course have FLW fans in Central Ohio and quite a few homes that were inspired by Frank Llloyd Wright.

The Wescott House

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

My city of Delaware puppy pal Sadie announces the beginning of baseball season for Toby on Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio today. What a dog!

“Spring is Here! It’s Baseball Time Again”

Oh I guess it is Toby not Sadie: “April 2nd, 2007 by Toby Boyce”

Toby is a big baseball fan… Sadie probably knows as much about baseball as I do, although I bet I have been to more Reds and Indians games than Sadie.

Today is the beginning of baseball huh?
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