If you’re looking for a good Peoria portal, check out the new Peoria.com. Their site has a good, clean look and no broken links that I can find. The pages load quickly and have attractive graphics. The whole thing looks very professional.
They link to news stories equally from traditional media outlets and blogs, and they are actively seeking bloggers to provide original news and opinion for their site. There’s a forum (more like a traditional computer bulletin board than a blog), a listing of upcoming Peoria events, classified ads and job listings and a community guide. It’s pretty well-rounded.
The key is going to be keeping everything fresh and updated. How many portals have you visited that have information woefully out of date or missing completely? If they’re vigilant in keeping things relentlessly updated and complete, I think they’ll be very successful. And I wish them the best of luck.
I visited – it looks pretty cool.
BUT they link to Merle Widmer’s blog, and refer to it as a “great article.” I just can’t go there.
I suppose, though, you could give them props for presenting a broad cross section of bloggers, including the insane, too.
cgiselle12: Are you have a stream of consciousness thinking and implying that Merle would be in the blogger section for the insane?