There’s No there There: foursquare in Louisville

Think of foursquare as an “urban mix tape.” We’ll help you make lists of your favorite things to do and let you share them with friends. Think beyond your standard review – we’re looking less for “The food here is top notch” and more for “Go to Dumont Burger and try the most amazing Mac [...]

Travel Writing Contest (If You’re So Inclined)

Contests with terms like this kind of give me the hives:
“By submitting an entry and entering the contest, you grant Trazzler and Greater Louisville Community Branding Project and its member organizations a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to publish and distribute your text and photo entry for their promotional purposes in print and digital materials.”
But [...]

Free Tracks to Download from The Pass

The Pass is a local band that was recently signed to Louisville’s own sonaBLAST! Records. I love that we’ve got some indie record labels signing and promoting local bands. I’ve got another indie label and artist that I’ll be telling you about in a couple days. All these great local bands coming up and all [...]

Google Fiber for Communities in Louisville? It’s Worth a Shot

A couple days ago word starting moving around the interwebs about a new initiative from Google. No, I’m not talking about Google Buzz, I’m talking about Google Fiber for Communities.
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed [...]

Groupon Takes Louisville By Storm

I’ve been seeing ads for Groupon pop up on local blogs running Google AdSense ads recently. Now my inbox is kind of blowing up with people talking about Groupon so it’s definitely time I mention it. Groupon’s subtitle is “Collective Buying Power” and their mission is to feature one killer deal per day in each [...]

Drunken Cooking Vegetarian Style

This new, Louisville based web show is a production after my own heart: Drunken Cooking, Vegetarian Style. Here’s the description from the press release:
For anyone who’s ever regretted that 3 a.m. trip through the Taco Bell drive-thru, a deliciously fun alternative is coming to your kitchen. “Drunken Cooking, Vegetarian Style,” a new web-based video [...]

Backupify Your Social Media Life for Free (Louisville Company)

Backupify, is an online backup service that protects your social media accounts. It gives you the ability to backup Gmail, Wordpress, Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Facebook and a whole bunch of other accounts that you’ve probably come to depend on pretty heavily 
How does this relate to Louisville? Well Backupify is the brainchild of Louisville entrepreneur Rob [...]

Dear @fairdalebigfoot I Think I Love You

So apparently someone, um, thinks he saw Bigfoot in his backyard in Fairdale. As you might imagine this kind of sighting gets people excited.
There is so much excitement that the Fairdale Bigfoot has come out of his cave and started Twittering.
He’s got a heck of a sense of humor and is hoping for [...]

Celebrate Buzzgrinder’s Birthday July 31, 2009

Turns out I’m not the only one having Louisville internet entity having a birthday next week. Music blog Buzzgrinder is turning 8 years old and they’re throwing a party at the Rud on Friday July 31, 2009 to celebrate.
Here’s all the scoop straight from Buzzgrinder:
“In 2001, Seth decided to waste most of his day [...]

Dig Jazz? You Need to Check out the Louisville Jazz Calendar

I tell you truthfully that I did not know there was so much jazz activity in this town. The Louisville Jazz Society runs a well updated calendar with more jazz options than you can possibly know what to do with. For example there are, by my count, 16 jazz options for this weekend alone. 

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