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A look back at this week on CHS in 2011
Way back in the summer of 2010, we were happy to introduce a new CHS iPhone app. We didn't build it. But we provided the newsy magic goodness that it displayed. Plan was to do the same thing again for other phone types. That never happened. Recently, the 600 or so of you using the app might have noticed it stopped updating. It's -- again -- not how we planned it but the app's days are done and it is no longer available for download. The person who built it has other priorities -- and we want to make new things happen. An update on one new thing, how we're hoping to see some other new things develop, and your opportunity to give us a taste of our own "constructive criticism" medicine are below. First, the new thing. Thanks to reader Devin Silvernail, there is still a CHS app out there. For Windows phones:
A look back at this week on CHS in 2011:
Check out last week's 1 Year Ago here.
Here are the top stories from the fourth week of January, 2011 on CHS:
And here's last week 1 Year Ago.
And here's our 1 Year Ago last week. The first CHS blog post was made on January 12, 2006. The site wasn't part of a business then, didn't really have a purpose and didn't cover anything but a small corner of Capitol Hill. We'd humbly submit this May 2008 entry as the present-day CHS's "first post." If you boiled down everything that has appeared since, you'd get this. Still, a birthday is a birthday. Thanks for all the nice notes.
Here's another thing that happened on Capitol Hill six years ago this month. This bird showed up. It had nothing to do with us. It had to do with lemmings. And Ballard, apparently.
Here are the top stories from the second week of January, 2011 on CHS:
We're here and ready to work when news pops up but there's a lot to read, look at, absorb and comment on in the posts below. Enjoy. Or, if you've already consumed our crafted content, take a break. Look out the window. Click on another site. You can also leave a comment on this open thread. We'll take your resolutions. We'll take your New Year's good wishes. We'll take your intel on what's open and what's not (see below re: our new holiday tradition). We'll take videos of you singing Auld Lang Syne.UPDATE: Video of the 2012 fireworks view from Capitol Hill added below. See something others need to know about? Mail us or call/txt (206) 399-5959. We also celebrate a new CHS tradition: The Great New Year's Day What's Open Punt. CHS will always be there for you for the Christmas version. But New Year's Day is a good day for bleary eyed wanderings. There are a few New Year's Day 2012 brunch notes at the bottom of our Capitol Hill party post but you'll be on your own for the rest. There are also quite a few clues buried in our Christmas Day post. Good luck. Share what you know here. Or don't. Enjoy the wander. As for the resolutions, CHS has some plans for 2012. You'll hear from more voices in the New Year -- good news for those tired of "jseattle." We also resolve to change our look and feel -- yes, 2012 will bring a redesign. We plan to grow as a business to help make sure we can continue to spend our days reporting on Capitol Hill. And we resolve to get back in touch with you -- there will be more CHS happy hours in 2012, if nothing else. Cheers. And the squiggly lines? That's you guys. Thanks to the 100,000 of you who stopped by this month. We hope you found what you are looking for.
8:09AM - - UPDATES - Unless there's huge news, we'll keep this post at the top of the homepage through the weekend. Take a look at the homepage for updates. 7:33AM - - Fireworks view from Capitol Hill - Video from Seattle Rex -- as the voice in the background says, "Fuck 2011!" 4:39PM - - MORE! - 
A little more than one year ago, CHS and our sister site the Central District News rolled out an interesting little experiment -- the Seattle Independent Advertising Network, a loose confederation of community news sites that worked together despite independent owners, independent agendas and independent goals. The roll out garnered zero media attention beyond our own attempts to self-toot our horns. Toot! Just two months later, two relative giants of Seattle media said they, too, were starting a Seattle advertising network but the big difference was going to be their collective army of sales resources to throw at the problem. The Seattle Times+KING 5/Belo network -- Belocal -- got press when it launched last October. But not a word was said this October when it was ignobly shuttered. "Over the past nine months," the announcement read, "we have not seen the marketplace embrace the beLOCAL products to the degree necessary to sustain this product. Given the cost structure of the product, continuing with a smaller number of sales than was anticipated is not possible." Meanwhile, Seattle Indie Ads still lives. We knew it would be puny heading in but it's even smaller than we thought -- but it is still alive and, over the past year, has paid out more than $150,000 in advertising revenue to community news sites around the city. It's not the greatest business and without CHS, it probably wouldn't have survived. But it did beat a couple giants who couldn't (yet?) make small work. That's worth a very small horn toot, no? Thanks much to our Seattle Indie Ads partners. You can learn more at http://seattleindieads.com/ Neighborhood Partners
Haven't posted one of these navel gazers in some time but if you're interested in hearing a little of the background behind CHS and a few other of the city's neighborhood news sites, tune in, below. Oh, and we're also looking for some more friends to add to the party that is working on CHS. Details, details, details... below. Thanks for being part of CHS! More audio at MyNorthwest.com
You know what 4k likes and a nickel will get you? We don't know either. But two first-class postage stamps will get you one of our shiny new jet edition CHS crow buttons in celebration of the CHS Facebook page hitting 4,000 likes. Yes, we don't know what it means, either, but it sounds like a lot. To claim your prize, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: I am asked every now and then how people can best support the site. Tell local businesses to buy a CHS ad, I usually say. The person usually laughs. Here's something else you can do that might be a little easier.
First, to be clear -- CHS is alive and well and sustainable. But if you would like to support CHS and become part of a group with a long-term, fuzzily defined interest in the site's future, please consider a $5/month CHS subscription. We added a sign-up box to the right side of the page a week ago. One person -- adventurous type, to be sure -- took us up on the offer even though, at this point, there are no subscriber benefits, no free gifts, no reason other than your support. If you'd rather just add something to help us out and not sign up for the monthly payment, you can tip us here via Paypal. If you'd rather we survive or die, click here.
It's been two years since the first CHS Pledge Drive. That was around post #3000. In retrospect, it was not a do or die moment but it was definitely an effort that helped expand CHS at a critical time. Sometime toward the end of this summer, CHS will publish its 6,000th post. The site has been a full-time, (mostly) serious business since spring of 2008. These days, about 6,000 people visit CHS every day. In total, 78,000 unique visitors came to the site in June. Most importantly, a core of about 24,000 of you *really really meant* to come here by taking the time to type capitolhillseattle.com into a Web browser or having a link bookmarked. The rest wandered through via our robust RSS following, social media like Twitter and Facebook, traffic from news partners like Seattle Times and SeattleCrime, search, etc. As a community news site, CHS is a modest success. As an obsession, it's my density. As a business, the industry is less rewarding. I have found ways to sustain it while also keeping a similarly modest start-up afloat. If you appreciate the site and want to help boost our effort, this is one way to do it. We plan to stick around to give you plenty of other ways to help, too. One year ago, CHS and Seattle University's The Spectator began working together in a simple but unique partnership that puts a working independent journalist (me!) in connection with talented young journalists in training (them!) for coverage opportunities and collaboration. Here's a recent example. As part of these collaborations, we've agreed to share a portion of generated advertising revenue with area non-profits that represent things we hold dear -- like taking fantastic pictures, for example. Last week, The Spectator's big kahuna Frances E. Dinger (she's in the middle of the photo wearing stripes and standing next to the old man in the black sweater holding the check) and I were happy to visit Youth in Focus to hand over a check as a gift from the partnership. Here's more about YiF -- thanks for being part of CHS and helping us to make things like this possible:
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