Archive for August, 2008

What happened this week in Sparkle City’s vlog-o-sphere? We’ve checked out the recently uploaded YouTube videos tagged with “Spartanburg” to find out. To start, we found recently uploaded video of from the South Carolina Green Energy Rally, a MoveOn.org-sponsored rally that took place across from the Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 19. If you missed... »

It has been a relatively busy week for local blogs. Over at JW Grayson’s Thoughts, John McCain’s new running mate is being considered. From the post McCain’s Choice For VP: »

Here we are — the zero day. Tomorrow marks the “official” start of the Spartanburg Spark. That’s the day where I stop writing about what the site will become, and start focusing on the content rather than the design. In a way, it’s the end of the easy part. Starting tomorrow, I’m building a... »

Here’s the gimmick: Each week, we’ll pick two local bands — an opening act and a headliner — link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your precious time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be... »

The tinkering with the 1.0 version of the site’s layout and basic design is nearly over. The first version of the Spark logo is complete, and most of the actual structure is functioning well enough for new visitors to understand. A few things remain to be done before the site is “finished” — largely... »

About halfway through listening to the very first track on After August’s MySpace page, I realized that I’d heard them before. Then, a few seconds later, I thought maybe I was wrong, and that I was really thinking of a particularly rocking Matchbox 20 song I heard on the radio or something. Then, as... »

On Sunday, I mentioned I’d be starting a new site to serve as a central hub for Spartanburg’s blogosphere. I just launched it a few moments ago at www.SparkleCityBlogs.com. It is still a little spartan (fittingly) and the layout is rough (it’s just a standard WordPress theme — I’m too busy tweaking the Spark’s... »

This is just a brief update: Those of you who have been watching as the Spark slowly pulls itself out of the CSS soup will no doubt notice that some of the basic elements of the page have changed over the last two days. With only a few days left until the site is... »

What happened this week in Sparkle City’s vlog-o-sphere? We’ve checked out the recently uploaded YouTube videos tagged with “Spartanburg” to find out. First, we ran across Spartanburg Community Church’s “ReMix” youth-group production member BoLives4JC, who found himself doing an entirely non-religious kind of snake handling. According to the YouTube post: “I was getting pumped for... »

Over the course of the last week, I’ve been checking out Spartanburg’s native blogging community. I’ve been somewhat surprised at how few local blogs there are, and how few of those actually identify themselves with being a part of the town. There are a few noteworthy local blogs — the Hub-Bub’s Artists-In-Residence, Seeding Spartanburg... »

What’s new in the local news this week? Below is a grab-bag of stories that caught the attention of the Spark this week. Headline: Employee took $750,000 at Christian Supply, owner says Source: Herald-Journal / GoUpstate.com Story: Click here In a nutshell: “Christian Supply owner Chuck Wallington told police an employee embezzled about $750,000 between Jan. 1, 2007,... »

It has been exactly one week since I posted the first blog on this site, and in that time the Spark has gone from being little more than a placeholder on the internet to being actually a little useful for a few things. A couple of bands have been profiled, Slobot has been given... »

Seriously, who doesn’t love Slobot? »

If the site has seemed weird and buggy over the last few days, it’s because I’ve been messing around with the code, and trying a few things out. The upshot of this is that The Spark now has a very primitive-looking horizontal navigation bar at the top, opening up the layout for the eventual... »

Here’s the gimmick: Each week, we’ll pick two local bands — an opening act and a headliner — link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your precious time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be... »