The Big Upgrade...

You may have noticed a few subtle (but Very Important) changes to the athensi.com site. The most obvious: additional xml/rss feeds, each noted on the graphic above the associated content category. Whereas our old site only had athensi.com original content (which hardly exists) in an outbound feed, this new version of athensi.com bundles up content from partner sites, presents it on athensi.com while ALSO making an rss feed of that bundled content.

Our goal hasn't changed, however: improving the flow of information about Athens, Ohio to the community of Athens. This means trying to drive traffic to all of the content providers in Athens... whether they be of the Big Media variety (relatively speaking) or part of the local blogger community.

In the process of updating the functionality of the site, with the help of programming Claus Rasmussen (based in Denmark, of all places!), I also tried to look around for more potential content providers who have rss feeds on their sites. To do this search, I googled the terms: athens ohio rss ... and did, indeed, find some sites I'd never heard about before. The addition of those sites, plus the culling of some sites and blogs that hadn't been updated in several months, should make the content on athensi.com more relevant, up-to-date, useful, etc., etc.

I hope you find ATHENSi.com to be of use to you, and if you can think of ways to improve it (e.g., if you know about sites with rss feeds that aren't showing up on our site), let me know. My email: profstewartrk@gmail.com

Thanks,
Bob Stewart