No Locally Grown podcast this week. If you’re desperate to hear our voices, see our radio show archives, our category for podcast episodes or our Feedburner page for a listing…
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In City Administrator Al Roder’s Friday Memo for this week, published today, he wrote: In October, the library experienced a 9% increase in circulation over the same month in 2006.…
You may not have noticed but our resident techie and web designer Sean Hayford O’Leary created a new stylized photo banner of the three of us (upper left…
The number of unique visitors to the Locally Grown blog took a nosedive in August, dropping to 3,222 from a July peak of 6,246. Click the Google Analytics image to…
Our head designer and tech guy, Sean Hayford O’Leary, has installed a set of rotating banners for our Locally Grown blog, carved from Northfield-related photos. But he’s turned off the…
We’ve had over 1,000 comments from about 75 different people during the month of August. I don’t know how that compares to other months, as we’ve not been keeping track.…
Web traffic to Locally Grown (visitors, visits, pageviews) has mushroomed since February when we last reported our stats. In July, we averaged 361 visitors/day, with 6,246 unique visitors (people) and…

With the steady increase in comments to our blog posts, it was about time we publicized our discussion guidelines instead of carrying them around in our heads for you to guess. There is now a Guidelines tab on the nav bar tab that’s at the top of every page.

And there’s a reminder with a link on the comment box itself.
A blog with comments enabled is not quite the same as a full-fledged web forum or discussion board. There are both philosophical and technical differences. I’ll explain if anyone’s interested.
Here’s the text of the Guidelines. We’d like feedback on them and are willing to consider adapting them.