FAQ and What We're About...

Easy. Just Join and like things.

Actually, you already are. If you've written a tweet in or about Seattle, chances are you may have already been in the site content. If you blog about the city it may be in there. Just post about a Seattle neighborhood, a show, news, etc. Keep it up! But let us know about you.

Send Us A Source

We cannot thank you enough for tip offs on great new blogs and news sources. We strike a careful balance to avoid being noise and capture a community's voice. You often know better than us what that means.

We pull articles and posts from newspapers, blogs, organizations, the city, and based on geo-location. We are careful about including within the context of the neighborhood and the topic as it relates to our city. For example the Central Cinema is part of the Central District community, but no one cares what's at the MegaPlex5000 downtown.

By all means, let us know about new sources!
However, we believe that collecting every piece of noise in the city isn't very interesting. We're giving a human editorial voice to the concept of remixing web content. Curation is the new noise. Collecting everything and dumping it back out is getting kinda lame. We also have our slant, and have ultimately made something we like and find useful. It's not a search engine (though we'll have Solr setup shortly.) You're welcome to help us make it more useful to you and others.
PS: That's more like a statement.

We add more every day. Join our team and help this grow.

First on the todo list is super-quick-fast participation with oAuth registration and pushing your posts right to twitter. We're on that now.

Also being worked on is bringing photos back within articles. We killed this for the new layout, but we want all want them.

You'll be able to post full articles too in the near future too.

Next, we plan to open our search to everyone. We just need to get apache solr all setup.

We will most likely allow you to push posts to Facebook. Yeah, probably.

In the not so distant future we'll be letting you create channels. That's what publicio.us is all about, and iheartsea is part of that vision. Woohoo!

Things after this are planned, but not set in stone. Ya gotta stay flexible. Have an idea?

If you're a designer or developer (especially Drupal) come by for our weekly meeting. You can be in charge of a neighborhood, a topic, or create new channels we need. Let's make some news! But still please send us new sources or join and post.

The first version is live. *whew* We are excited to continue improving content, better representing neighborhoods and the extent of great stuff going on in the city. With any hope we can bring a new generation to town hall presentations, help with the transition in the news industry, and ultimately engage people in the city.

I heart SEA is the first demo site of our publicio.us engine. We can point this platform at various topics, and will, as long as it's useful and interesting.