Kevin Freitas: FEEDing Tacoma!

So Kevin Freitas came to our class and spoke all about his project FEED Tacoma as well as his personal blog space.

My thoughts? Wow! I didn't realize to the extent that people blogged online. I only recently heard about blogging over the past few years. To me it was more of a journal entry, a diary post, or rather something that was just an informal bit or piece of a news tidbit.

As I progress through this class and am educated by our instructor and his speakers, I realize it is so much more than that. Blogging is indeed a tool for the masses to come together, create a community, and speak/discuss THEIR topics.

So the Feed Tacoma site had some areas I thought were particularly "cool." The full automation of the site to aggregate news blogs was awesome. I kept thinking "Googlezon!" while Kevin was talking and smiling. Ya, so I amuse myself in interesting ways. :)

The "Shops" area was another intersting spot for discussion because it falls inline with a pet project of mine. I get excited about techonology and how much it jumps ahead every time I stop to look at it. I mean really, think back 5 years and look at where we are now (the easiest for me was always to look at the difference in video games from 5 years ago to today). What changes will happen in the ensuing 5-10 years?

And Kevin, stop the insanity! Tap into the Googlezon network and find a creative way to drop some GoogleAds in there! lol! I mean they shell out like $17 some-odd billion in ad commissions a year.

All in all, Kevin has done some great things. His Feed Tacoma site (www.feedtacoma.com) provides a hyper-local newspot for the Tacoma area. It was fun to listen to how his site and the followers of it (the "FeedTacoma Community") started the "Frost Park Chalk Off." Great stuff! Taking an online community and bringing it together in the real world to make a difference. I'm sure the more I think about it, the more I could ramble on, but I truly enjoyed the work that was done and the possibilities that exist for it. We are definitely moving to "Living and Working in a Virtual World."