Feel like sharing?

June 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment

ARRRRRRRGoing to that North Link Light Rail meeting tonight? Wanna share what you learned?

Go to Northeast District Council meetings? Would you like to tell others in the neighborhood what happened?

Been itching to write a weekly or monthly column on a neighborhood issue near and dear to your heart?

Wanna review that new Indian restaurant on 23rd and 65th?

Think on it, write about it, and let me know! I’d love to see more content on this site — wouldn’t you?

Send your thoughts and ideas to rebecca [at] ravennablog.com.

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Who are YOU ignoring while you read this?

June 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment

If you found your way here from Future Tense, HI THERE.  My toddler is currently sitting on my lap watching Kittens Inspired By Kittens while I type this.  He’s a big fan.

For the rest of you, yours truly went down to KUOW on Friday and got interviewed for John Moe’s show, Future Tense (program title of, “Daddy why do you love your iPhone more than me?“).  And he linked to this blog from the program page. And the last post was all tweets! *shakes head in disgust*

And, for the record, I do not have an iPhone. But we did have an iPad in the house a week ago, and the toddler gave me a taste of my own medicine by hogging it the whole time. Message received!

Now, if you will excuse me, I’ve another interview to get to. This one is entitled, “Baby, why won’t you EVER let me finish my coffee?”

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Mission Statements

April 13, 2010 by 4 Comments

ARRRRRRROne of my goals with the Ravenna Blog is to keep things as local to Ravenna as possible.

[However, if I see President Obama walking down 15th Avenue NE eating frozen custard from Peaks, and I’m across the street (hopefully with my camera), heck YES, I’m going to write a post about that.]

There are a number of other NE Seattle blogs that can keep you and yours updated on the doings and transpirings of the greater NE Seattle area. Most of them also have Facebook and Twitter accounts, too.

The Seattle P-I has a reader blog for North Seattle that anyone can write posts for.

KOMO TV has started their own “communities” pages. Northeast Seattle is currently represented by Green Lake KOMO, Lake City KOMO, North Seattle KOMO, University District KOMO, and View Ridge KOMO. And, apparently, they’re all on Facebook AND Twitter, too. Gotta hand it to that Kathi Goertzen for putting all that together. [I kid. It was really Dan Lewis.]

The Seattle Times has partnered with various blogs across the city to create the Seattle Networked News Initiative. I really like the Team Effort Journalism idea, but Northeast Seattle has no coverage in it whatsoever. Here’s a link to the description of the project, which also includes contact information.

I’m sure I’ve missed stuff (Crosscut?). Do let me know what it was, and I’ll update my list and blogroll.

I’m also not going to post something every day.  For one, this ain’t Capitol Hill, or the U District. Things are a little quieter up here. For two, I want to stay excited about this little project and focus on churning out quality interesting stuff. I’m sure you want that, too. And, for three, it’s just me typing this thing. I’ve only got so many hands!

Lastly — for SURELY, this post has gone on long enough — I can only find so much fuel for this blog with my own eyes and ears. Ravenna Blog needs YOU.

Please contact me (rebecca [at] ravennablog.com) if you have news to share, neighborhood questions to ask, events to take part in, plants you’ve dug up and don’t want anymore,…whatever.

I look forward to serving you, dear reader, and the rest of Ravenna as best I can.

Filed Under: Events, metablog

All a twitter

April 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Yes, yes, we’re on twitter now, too.

twitter.com/RavennaBlog

Don’t ever worry about us cloggin’ up yer feed. I’m thinking three tweets a day, TOPS, and usually to just plug a new post on the site.

Now, are there any other social networking and/or microblogging media we’re missing?

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Ravenna Blog — now on facebook

April 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment

ARRRRRRRWhat can I say? All the other kids were doing it.

Be a fan, won’t you?

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The REAL Ravenna Blog — If Only

August 25, 2009 by 2 Comments

It’s hard to pin down what exactly is going on over at Oh My God Seattle, but it’s all quite good.  And that’s all that really matters.

For instance, there’s this take on hyperlocal blogging, set in our very own downtown commercial district (ha).  His Bagel Oasis entry is spot on.  Steven Blum does his homework.

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What? Humans DON’T hibernate? My bad.

January 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Oh yes.  We’re still here.

October came and went (as did our paultry six Trick-or-Treaters)…

rogue punkin

…votes were cast and turkey was eaten in November…

…there was a little blizzard in December…

…so, was there really anything to write about?

Yes!  Of course there was!  TONS!  But we didn’t, and for that, we apologize.

And now, we’re back on the case.  Off we go….

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Welcome to the Ravenna Blog!

August 8, 2008 by 4 Comments

The goal here is report on the doings and transpirings in Ravenna, a residential neighborhood in northeast Seattle.

Drop us a line if you see anything remotely interesting happening in the area.  As a new blog with no readers, we certainly appreciate any and all help.

Filed Under: Everything counts in large amounts, metablog, Ravenna
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