As we begin a series of changes and improvements to MyHometownOhio, our first step is to add two RSS feeds from two great blogs – one which has been around for a bit, and one brand new.

For some time we have been trying to bring you a feed from Building Cincinnati, which sets out to celebrate “…the Queen City’s built environment in words and pictures.” Kevin LeMaster always has something interesting and informative to share – he was the blogger, for instance, who broke the news about the lawsuit by several developers against the State of Ohio concerning the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit. We are proud to be on Building Cincinnati’s blogroll, and have been wanting to include Kevin’s site for sometime… but for some reason, the link will not “hold.” Our wonderful blog host (a great service, by the way) is just as perplexed as us on why that one feed will not work.. but we have solved the problem by adding Building Cincinnati via widget.

The other RSS feed is from a brand-new blog by someone well-known to the historic preservation community. When you talk about the interface between historic preservation and economic development, the name of Donovan Rypkema often comes to mind. In fact, Don wrote “the” book on the subjects – The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader’s Guide, which is apparently currently out of stock at Amazon.com (no surprise there, as it’s a popular resource guide). Don has just unveiled a new blog, which he writes and publishes out of his Place Economics website – and we have started to carry that feed via widget as well.

Both of these new widget feeds are located in the left column of MyHometownOhio.