So... the latest: Spokesman-Review (Ken Sands and company) have done a spiffy good job of creating an index of local bloggers. Props to them for what must have been quite a job of collecting all the local bloggers (albeit with some extra pull value for the fame seekers among us). Very nice work there, make sure you check it out.

Next: my plans with BlogSpokane.com are to create a running display of all local bloggers and their posts so you can read them all in one place. Essentially an RSS reader, specific to Spokane blogs. Well... farbeit from me to re-invent the wheel. The new Kinja service has a splendid band-aid solution until I have the time to do it properly. So I've hijacked it for our nefarious purposes and created a compilation of local Spokane blog feeds.

Here's how it works: if you are listed on the S-R page today (4/5/04) you should be on this feed list. If you are not, email me or leave a comment and I'll add you. If you are there, but wish not to be, just let me know and I'll get you deleted from the index. Note that it will probably take a couple days for things to start showing up in the correct order.

For those of you that would like to use the spiffy "Spokane Bloggers" buttons below, grab one and link it to BlogSpokane.com. Using that link (instead of linking to Kinja directly) will insure that you always link to the current version of whatever I've concocted to keep us all connected (but then again it's a free country, do what you want).

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[Update 6/7/04] After deliberations, a final single BlogSpokane image was selected by popular vote.

Link to: http://www.blogspokane.com/

(Please put the image on your own server before you put it on your page.)

Some more:

I also put an alt-text of "I'm a Spokane Blogger!" on mine.

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So I'm seeing a surprising number of Google searches for "Blog Spokane" or "Spokane Blog" or "Spokane Blogging" that end up here. So I've created BlogSpokane.com.