20 responses so far ↓

• 1 dahl // May 24, 2004 at 9:04 am

  congrats - it looks good so far!

• 2 tien // May 24, 2004 at 9:18 am

  wait, so that was the chicago thing with the “ist” at the end?

• 3 jr // May 24, 2004 at 9:21 am

  Good luck with your new adventure. I though you might want to know that you’ve been boingboing’ed

  http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/24/chicago_replaces_cow.html

• 4 will // May 24, 2004 at 9:33 am

  Good luck guys, I have good feelings that your web expertise (webspertise?) will make Chigagoist a worthy sister ship to gothamist.

• 5 matt // May 24, 2004 at 2:32 pm

  Sweet! Who’s going to be the Tien of Chicagoist and cover the sports beat (and Cubbies)?

  Was “Chicagoist” the first and only name considered, or were there others?

  Now I’m wondering what other websites-about-a-city Gothamist will spawn? San Diegoist? Appletonist?

• 6 rachelle // May 24, 2004 at 2:38 pm

  matt, we did brainstorm a bunch of other names but domains werent available for any of the other good ones. so then we just decided to go for chicagoist.

• 7 Jen // May 24, 2004 at 2:39 pm

  Jake and I did consider a number of names, but we felt Chicagoist was the best fit. I know some people are all bugged out about it, but after our brainstorming session, we went back to Chicagoist.

• 8 Howard // May 24, 2004 at 3:32 pm

  Gothanist jump started my blog back in March.
  I read it every day and since Rachelle moved to Chicago I’ve followed her as well (including the bumps & bruises of Hawaii). Particularly impressed with the great photo shoots.

  Is there room for a geezer side? If so, how does one attach to this list?

  the OzWiz

• 9 joe s // May 24, 2004 at 7:15 pm

  Good luck and welcome to the “-ist” family!

• 10 matt // May 24, 2004 at 10:34 pm

  Holy moly. Chicagoist is making the rounds fast! The article about Gehry’s new bridge is linked to on Archinect’s news column!

  Impressive PR department!

• 11 WhatISee // May 24, 2004 at 11:20 pm

  A Big Big Thank You to Rachelle

  If you couldn’t guess from the kind of random posts over the past 10 days, we’ve been away. “M” and I took a week off and went to France. Why France? Several reasons, but mostly because we’ve wanted to…

• 12 Chicagoan // May 25, 2004 at 9:35 am

  You New Yorkers shit and call it art, as if you’re the first ones to ever do it. Go back to New York. Please. Chicagoist is nothing but redundant patronizing crap. Not welcomed, not appreciated, and not as popular as those outside of Chicago have been led to believe.

• 13 joel // May 25, 2004 at 5:43 pm

  jeez … looks like SOMEONE’s got quite the sandy vagina. relax “chicagoan” - the internet’s plenty big for everyone. cripes.

• 14 rachelleb // May 25, 2004 at 7:12 pm

  I love it when you get angry and defend me, Joel. It always makes me laugh just when I need it. I take “Chicagoan”’s comment with a grain of salt. The hundreds of emails and comments I have gotten regarding Chicagoist over the past days and weeks have been, for the most part, positive and supportive. And I’ve gotten many many inquiries from people who would like to contribute to the site. I don’t know who appointed “Chicagoan” spokesperson for Chicago, but from what I’ve seen Chicago’s opinion is much the opposite of “Chicagoan”’s.

• 15 joel // May 25, 2004 at 9:23 pm

  good, cuz I’ll smack these people in the FACE!

  I was just reading boingboing and, coincidentally enough, I think “Chicagoan” is on the cover of this month’s “Internet Tough Guy Magazine”

  http://craphound.com/images/inettoughguy.jpg

• 16 joel // May 25, 2004 at 9:30 pm

  hmmm … my last comment(s) is/are looking quite ironic.

  saying I’ll “smack people” and then calling someone ELSE out as an “internet tough guy”.

  …

  oy, I’m rambling. CARRY ON!

• 17 abhi // May 26, 2004 at 2:10 pm

  cool blog…:)

• 18 nickdickey // May 27, 2004 at 8:27 am

  I just defended rachellb, chicagoist and gothamist all in one post on Gothamist even though I am a “bloghater”. I think your work Rachelle has really influenced me about what it means to blog and how people can in fact do it right. Good luck with your blog endeavors and glad to peer into the blogsphere and glad you and others are making the world from the blogsphere’s point of view more interesting than it was before.

  And Chicago has issues in general trying to tie it all together cuz it’s a very vast and diverse city with it’s own issues. Chicagoans come in vast shapes and sizes and views but brave and exciting to have a view of the Chicago world. Your local perspective might give more people more of a non-suburban view that is much needed of the chicago world. As an ex-chicagoan I have to say rock on.

  : )

• 19 Arthur // May 28, 2004 at 8:31 pm

  Good luck with your new adventure, the Chicagoist. Chicagoan doesn’t have to read it if he doesn’t want to - it’s America, land of the free, after all!! (His angst and anger may come from his chicagoan jealousy of NYC)…
  anyway I came across this for you: http://www.chicagosnapshot.com/cs/index.html and thought you might be interested. I confess to missing your NY posts.

• 20 CJ // Jun 8, 2004 at 2:57 pm

  Congrats and good luck, you will do some good things for Chicagoist I’m sure!

  ..looking forward to some “ist” sites for Texas now..

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