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Metro-East, IL - Directory, Classifieds, FSBO, Jobs, Events, Blogs, News, and Forum » Brian’s Blog http://www.metro-east.com Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:11:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Public Meeting in Collinsville: Business Revitalization Plans http://www.metro-east.com/brian/public-meeting-in-collinsville-business-revitalization-plans/ http://www.metro-east.com/brian/public-meeting-in-collinsville-business-revitalization-plans/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:01:29 +0000 Brian Bailey http://www.metro-east.com/brian/public-meeting-in-collinsville-business-revitalization-plans/ Related pages:

]]> Today's meeting will share plans of the proposed Northeast Business District. The redevelopment will cover some property along Belt Line Road from Keebler Road to Vandalia Street, areas along Vandalia Street from west of Wilson Avenue to Crestmoor Street and the land at the intersection of Keebler Road-Pine Lake Road and Vandalia Street.

Today's public meeting will be held 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at City Hall, and another will be held there at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

For more details you can read the full article.

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]]> Weather page you will see a brand new setup. I had been using The Weather Channel as the provider but I wasn't happy with the look or the usability of their interface. I've switched over to AccuWeather and I think you'll agree that it's a big improvement. The box at the top left that says "St. Louis Forecast" and has an image of a person and a map background is actually a video weather update that you can watch right here from the site. I think that's pretty neat. The bigger box has all sorts of goodies, including forecasts for the week, current temperatures, and current radar image. I know it's not the most exciting or useful page in the world but I'm glad to be able to provide another Metro-East centered service here on the site. If you have thoughts on what would make the page more useful or just want to say hello you can use the comment section below or email me from the Contact page.

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]]> front page at CNN.com under the Travel section and is an excerpt from the magazine Southern Living. Topics covered include:

The Arch
The Anheuser-Busch Brewery
The Cardinals
Forest Park
The Art Museum, Science Center, the History Museum, and the Botanical Garden

They also cover some restaurants and accomodations. The article is not very long or original but it's not often that anything from the area makes the front page of a major website so I thought it was worth pointing out. Read the full article here.

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]]> I think the Classifieds and Auctions are looking good and they seem to be easy to navigate. Now we just need to add some more sections and get to the point where you can almost literally find anything for sale in the Metro-East at Metro-East.com. I also hope to have some bloggers on board in the very near future so that section of the website should start to fill out nicely. The events section obviously requires some work but I have a lead on a good solution for that so hopefully we can pull it together soon. The forum is also quite empty but that's to be expected with any new website. I hope you like what's going on here so far. If you have any questions or feedback please, please, please let me know. That's the only way things are going to improve. - Brian

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]]> every website that every customer visits and then they will sell this information to NebuAd. The information will be used by NebuAd to target advertisements to specific demographics. (This is very similar to the business model employed by News Corp's MySpace and Google's Gmail.) The Times writes that:

Charter started sending letters out to several hundred thousand customers in four markets: Fort Worth, Tex.; San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Oxford, Mass.; and Newtown, Conn. (The letters were first reported by DSLreports.com.) Charter said it will start testing the system within 30 days and will make a decision whether to roll it out to its 2.8 million Internet customers a few months after that.

We should find out soon whether or not the St. Louis based Charter will be monitoring activity in the Metro-East where the majority of broadband internet connections are supplied by the company. If reports are true and NebuAds is paying $2-3 per Charter customer for this information then it is probably only a matter of time before our websurfing habits start generating additional income for the communications conglomerate. The full New York Times article can be found here.

]]> http://www.metro-east.com/brian/charter-will-monitor-customers/feed/ Metro-East Living http://www.metro-east.com/brian/metro-east-living/ http://www.metro-east.com/brian/metro-east-living/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:18:01 +0000 Brian Bailey http://www.metro-east.com/blog/metro-east-living/

]]> Living in the Metro-East The Belleville News Democrat has released the 2008 version of their annual guide Metro-east Living. The guide contains 60 pages of information including history, local celebrities, census information, arts, entertainment, sports, and a considerable number of advertisements. I expect that in addition to finding the guide online you will receive a copy with your newspaper if you have a subscription to the newspaper.

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