BC garners praise, passes milestones

Building Cincinnati has finished in second place in the blog category in both the staff and readers picks of CityBeat's 2008 Best of Cincinnati voting.

CityBeat staff chose Cincinnati Locavore as the best source of local micro-media, while readers chose Sean Fisher's excellent Buy Cincy as their favorite.

Other local blogs receiving the love were CityKin, Queen City Survey, Lance McAllister's sports blog, Cincinnati Blog and Urban Cincy.

To celebrate, I have added a link to CityBeat's Porkopolis blog to my blogroll.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Building Cincinnati, and please check out these other blogs as well. They're all good.


Milestones

A couple of weeks ago and without fanfare, Building Cincinnati had its 1,000th post.

Five NBDSF requests received for 1Q2008 made its appearance as the "B" story on March 20 and quickly slipped into oblivion, overshadowed by three other stories that generated a total of 11 reader comments.

Also, somewhere along the line this website passed 100,000 page views, and the number is increasing rapidly.

While it probably wouldn't be a fair comparison to say that this blog gets 27 times more page views that it did in 1Q2007, I can say that page views for 1Q2008 are up 46 percent over 4Q2007 and 126 percent over 3Q2007.

Trends for unique and returning visitors are even better than that!

Thank you again for reading, and please feel free to offer feedback on how I can improve your reading experience at buildingcincinnati@gmail.com.

(P.S. I'm still working on that upgrade and redesign, I promise!)