I am also impressed.  Win win - exposure for PDD, and support for MPR.

You can't handle Duluth.

I heard the last one a week ago Sunday, during my return trip from my weekly Ely pilgrimage.  Made me grin.

... a real online place where irony goes to die ...

Still cannot get the Current in Duluth or Winona yet...

Don't even get me started on the "Current in Duluth" thing...

Speaking of MPR, has anyone noticed that Duluth reporter Bob Keilliher hasn't been on the air in a while and that there was an ad for a Duluth based public radio job?

well, i think "seedy" would imply somehow that our overall intentions are anything less than pure, or that PDD is populated by a pack of anonymous sock puppets. Oh, wait...that's another site altogether.

anyone that pays any sort of attention at all knows that simply isn't the case, which differs greatly from a few of the other "community" weblogs.

Just goes to show you how easily misconceptions and misjudgements can be formed when you presume and assume and have absolutely no fucking clue. Therefore you allow your blind prejudices to color your opinions. Right, Deke?

Because people can contribute to an online conversation in a relatively local forum?  I guess I don't see the comparison, Danny.

There is so much wrong with what Ethan just said about me I don't know where to begin.  I was not criticizing PDD with my throw-away contribution to this conversation.  Not in any way, shape, or form.  The fact that PDD is an open forum is by far my favorite trait of PDD.  You may not know anything about my criticism of the local blog-o-sphere but I am a huge critic of the editing and paranoid facelessness that is seen on other blogs, forums, and online destinations (which is rare here).

As for your comments about the look of dannydoesduluth.com, I will honestly take your suggestions into consideration.  I'm at a sort-of odd place right now with what I want to do visually with the site and have been focusing much more on the quality of the meat of DDD, the audio.  Also, I don't have an iphone app.  Android only for now.

Word.  Might take you up on that.

Grrr.  I wish I could edit my posts - or refrain from posting before reading what I wrote.  Danny's quote was: "there is so much wrong with what Ethan just said about me I don't know where to begin." - not "there is so much wrong with Ethan that I don't know where to begin."

Here's a good, inexpensive web host - I use ASP.Net - I disagree with you politically but would be happy to set up a little site for you for a few hundred bucks which would include a nice template, admin interface, content-management - I would need a logo and basic content from you:

http://discountasp.net/

Speaking of PDD's money, is there any way I contribute? Kharma dictates that I should give back.

I tried to be a hippie, even rubbed coconut oil in my hair... but I just wasn't lackadaisical, idealistic or dank enough.

Cool supporting NPR, guys!

@Bad Cat Buy an ad maybe? Speaking of that, it would be really cool if there was some smaller ad spaces for sale here - like just a little section with 25x25 squares that individuals and smaller business could afford. It would be fun, good for the community, and bring in some cash for the site!

I think the benefits to the community and PDD would outweigh aesthetic concerns. There are a lot of smaller businesses, organizations and individuals in a  town like this who would love to buy ads and support this site, but can't afford (and wouldn't need) a full size space. 

Okay then... I'm buying an ad and subletting the space for $30 a space. Ha!

>With a higher number of smaller, harder-to-see, easier-to-ignore ads being sold at a cheaper price (with the same number of impressions) the value of individual ads goes down, resulting in less payoff for advertisers. 

That's why they're paying less for the smaller space. You'll probably get more clicks for the larger ones, since they're more visible. You'd have to keep an eye on the cost per click for those to see what a good price is.

I've built a couple web businesses and supporting my family from ads on web apps for a few years, so just giving my .02c on what I'd do with the site. You guys are doing a lovely job here.

If the current were brought to duluth 50 year old men currently employed would soon quit their jobs and start buying moog synthesizers.  At this point all of the 20-30 somethings would immediately drop the entire "college radio" listener-ship and start forming "family bands"...thus completing the circle.

Nobody has said 'Hi' yet.