Above: a rare look inside the Fort Worthology blogging caves?
So, through no real intent beyond a strong desire to share cool things (perhaps compounded by some sort of acute blogging disease), we have apparently started updating Fort Worthology on the weekends as well. Since this is unusual to long-time readers, here’s a wrap-up of content from over the weekend. Plus, we’ve got a couple of items we neglected to mention previously that pertain to the wacky hijinx and such of this site.
Preferred Engineering Firm Chosen For Modern Streetcar Project – The City of Fort Worth has a preferred engineering firm selected to handle the design process on the modern streetcar project.
New Gallus Bike Spotted – Another slick new custom bike from the talents of Jeremy Shlachter of Gallus Cycles.
Now, on to the odds & ends.
First of all, as of October 23rd, Fort Worthology has completed its third year of operation. Back in 2006, we really had no idea if anybody but us would want to read about urban Fort Worth happenings, but we just started writing and figured that if people enjoyed it, that’d be cool, and if not, that’s fine as well. Perhaps the mindset of Daring Fireball creator John Gruber explains it:
I wanted to write a site for someone it’s meant for. That reader I write for is a second version of me. I’m writing for him. He’s interested in the exact same things I’m interested in; he reads the exact same websites I read. I want him to like this website so much that he reads it from the top to the bottom, and he reads everything. Every single word. The copyright statement, what software I use, he’s read it all…I want Daring Fireball to be a site that you can’t skim if you’re in the target audience for it. You say, “Oh, a new article from John. I need to read it,” and your deadlines go whizzing by because you have to read what I wrote.
We are flattered that there appears to be a pretty decent number of folks out there who want to read about this stuff, too – so many that we’re now pushing around 40,000 pageviews a month. That’s awesome – thank you all for your readership.
The second piece of this sort of ties in. We have been honored by the Fort Worth Weekly in the “People and Politics” section of their Best of 2009 awards, with both a Critic’s Choice and Reader’s Choice for Fort Worth’s best blog. These sort of things are truly humbling and we thank all of you out there in Readerland, as well as the Weekly’s staff, for selecting this little slice of the netterwebs for this award. Seriously, all of you, thank you.
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