Urban Eola

About
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Urban Eola (urbaneola.com) is a lifestyle blog that was launched December 15, 2005 by Michael Tavani. The site is an online lounge providing intellectual entertainment for creative, young urbanites by profiling popular culture | trends | sport | urban life | art | fashion | web 2.0 | humor | the environment | lifestyle | and creative business. The content includes original perspectives, the best of the web, articles and stories, unique photos, and other interesting facts. UE's diverse content has attracted an audience of loyal site visitors. Come back often as there are usually 1 to 3 new posts daily. 35-second teaser // 1-year recap // 1 year in logos

Contents

1 // FAQ's
2 // Contact
3 // Credits

1 // FAQ's

Q: What does Urban Eola mean?
A: The name Urban Eola was derived from combining our zest for urban culture with the beautiful, scenic Lake Eola Park neighborhood in downtown Orlando, our original headquarters. The combo of the two names sounded so cool that we purchased the domain name. In fact, the first time the words "Urban Eola" were ever spoken steam rolled off my tongue.

Q: How is Urban Eola set up?
A: The site is set up in a standard blog format with the most recent post on the top of the front page. The previous 13 posts are in reverse chronological order on the front page. After that, the rest of the posts can be found by clicking "view all posts" at the bottom of the page or the monthly archives at the top. You can search the whole site by specific keywords that you're interested in reading about on the search bar at the very top left of the site.

Q: What the hell is a blog?
A: A "weblog" is page with dated entries in reverse chronological order, so that the latest updates are always at the top of the page. Blogs have allowed small, yet creative concepts with limited startup funds to generate large and captive audiences through the viral internet. In many instances blogs are competing with, and often surpassing traditional forms of media (newspaper, TV, etc.) in audience sizes.

Q: How often do you post?
A: We're not one of those anal blog sites that gets flustered if there's not a post up every day at 9 AM or anything like that. Instead, we post when we run into something interesting enough to share with the UE readers. Usually, it works out to 1-4 posts a day, which is perfect for you short attention-spanned readers out there. We've spent enough time in front of a computer to decipher the good stuff from the average stuff. Trust us, it'll be like a highlight show of our best ideas, thoughts, sightings, and content.

Q: Why read Urban Eola?
A: You know that feeling that you have when you walk into a nice Starbucks or Borders with your laptop in tow knowing you have an hour of relaxing and "intellectual entertainment" in front of you? That's the feeling Urban Eola is trying to replicate with this blog. Our inspiration for the urban lifestyle comes from a couple places we have spent some time: New York City, Europe, Orlando, and Atlanta. Come check out the Urban Eola lifestyle because we think you'll have a good time doing it.

Q: Sometimes I click on a link and the link does not work. Why?
A: We guarantee that at the time we publish each and every blog post all links are up and working. However, after time certain links are no longer good due to link rot, which is the process by which links on a website gradually become irrelevant or broken as time goes on, because websites that they link to disappear, change their content or redirect to new locations. Usually a quick Google search will yield the same results of the rotted link.

Q: How much does it cost you to run the site?
A: Not much. Urban Eola is hosted for free using Blogger and the domain name urbaneola.com was purchased for $7.20 on GoDaddy. The template is a combination of things we found on the internet along with our own design. The thousands of unique visitors that have enjoyed an Urban Eola blog post have done so via a whopping $0 spent on advertising and marketing.

Q: You stole something from my site. How dare you!?
A: The beauty of blogs is that they are such a fast-moving and efficient form of media/ entertainment. Having to obtain proper copyright permission for every story, image, etc. would defeat the purpose of blogs. To that end, Urban Eola does not intend to infringe any copyright laws with the production of this blog. If you want any content taken off this site, please request so via email.

Q: Couldn't someone else start the exact same blog?
A: Yes. But it wouldn't be as good because we know where to consistently find original content that our readers are interested in. Plus, Urban Eola's diverse... meaning the site does not focus on one specific subject but covers a spectrum of stuff that you guys are interested in.

2 // Contact

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