This just in: It's hot out. Seriously, though, it's not all that often Western Washington/Greater Seattle sees temperatures in the high 90's, much less the low 100's. We've got a page together on PNWLocalNews.com where we're aggregating headlines in Publish 2 with seascorcher (same thing on Twitter). We're also aggregating and curating Tweets (under the same tag) using the new… Continue

I put out a call on Twitter today, asking if anyone was using a Publish 2 tag or Twitter hashtag to track the King County Executive race. I haven't gotten any responses back yet, which I'm taking as a collective "no" (unless anyone here cares to pipe up).

Assuming that remains the case, I'm going to start tagging stories with the following tags:

Twitter: #KingCoExec
Publish2: kingcoexec (I feel like my one mistake from the I-90 bridge tag was that I should have made it one word and thus less c… Continue

For those who haven't seen it, Scott Karp of Publish 2 published a list of best practices for his product ... I think we're already using most of these.

We launched our aggregate page today for the July I-90 bridge closures.

If you've got your own page up, please share it (I'd love to link to it). If you're curious about how to help aggregate links and information, see here.

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With Westbound I-90 repairs and closures creeping up, I thought it would be a good idea to start organizing for aggregate coverage now (for those of you interested). I'll definitely be aggregating coverage somewhere and I'd like to push out a couple tags now so we're all ready on July 5:

Twitter: #I90bridge
Publish 2: I-90 bridge
Note/Update: If you're tagging stories in Publish 2,… Continue