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Together: WebUrbanist and WebEcoist comprise Webist Media, an independent online publishing group that aim to educate and fascinate, providing unique original content to an audience of over a million each and every month. Each article is carefully written and edited but should you find errors feel free to …
Contact Us: Many of our best ideas come from you, our readers. However, we do not accept press releases in any form – anything sent as a press release will be deleted without being read. That said, we enjoy getting fresh ideas, feedback and are open to complaints and criticism as well. Use the contact form at the bottom of the page select the subject carefully from the drop-down menu and understand that there may be a delayed response as we receive many inquiries.
Write for Us: WebUrbanist is always on the lookout for intelligent and engaged writers. Writing for WebUrbanist is flexible and fun (at least we think so) and can put your words in front of our over a million unique visitors per month. Performance bonuses after offered for particularly stellar content. Familiarity with WordPress (tagging, linking, uploading) is a plus and basic image editing (see articles) is a must. Use the contact form above and include the word ‘writer’ in the subject line for a fast answer.
About Us: WebUrbanist blog collective writers are interested in all things urban – from urban design to subversive art and strange architecture. We scour the net to find neat new stuff to pack it into an article with relevant images and links, as exhaustive as we can manage within a single subject area. Our team is comprised of web designers, bloggers, architects and other curious urbanists.
Delana: Our brilliant resident super-series author, Delana is the mastermind behind core content including the following 8-part comprehensive series and guides: 90 Unique Urban Furniture Designs, 70 Amazing Houses of the World, The Definitive Guide to Banksy Graffiti and Street Art and The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Guerrilla Marketing.
Kurt: Our steadfast switch-hitter, Kurt Kohlstedt tackles all kinds of subjects here and on WebEcoist and founded the classic 7 Wonders of the World series. His other articles address topics from abandoned places to adaptive reuse, amazing tree houses to uncanny skyscraper farms, floating utopian designs to reused military sea forts, recycled furniture to trash art, and geek graffiti to shopdropping and droplifting.
Mike: Striving to be a full-time frugal-living digital nomad, Mike is a certified geek with a background in archeology and has an uncanny nose for finding dazzling designs of all kinds around general themes like gaming and specific subjects ranging from common household furniture such as chairs, tables, beds to crazy coat racks, clocks, lights, showers, radiators and toilets. Who ever thought home furnishings could be so cool?
Steve: A stellar writer and amazing researcher, Steve has brought an twist of creative humor into the mix with articles on geek cake designs and brilliant book artists, extreme house boat designs and real-life nanotechnology applications, dramatic guerrilla marketing campaigns and steampunk art and fashion. Steve can also be found writing away about insane news and inventions of Japan over at InventorSpot.
Format: WebUrbanist has multiple articles per week. The emphasis is on quality, well-researched and fully sourced articles on whatever the subject is. This is not a blog in the traditional sense (of many smaller posts on a daily basis). It is, rather, a collective online urban magazine which we hope you will enjoy every time you open your inbox or feed reader or visit our site.
Statistics: WebUrbanist has had over 1,000,000 unique visitors in the last month. Our articles have featured on the front pages of social news sites including Metafilter, Digg, Reddit, Fark, StumbleUpon and ShoutWire. WebUrbanist has been written about and linked from major national websites and blogs including The Guardian, Gawker, Gizmodo, FOX, MSNBC, WebWare, Pronet Advertising, The MyBlogLog Blog, Wired, Mental Floss, Neatorama, Dark Roasted Blend and Deputy Dog. WebUrbanist is in the Alexa top 20K, Technorati top 500 and has a Google PageRank 6. Web Urbanist has over 200,000 regular RSS subscribers including the staff of Google Reader itself!
Submissions: Have a story, links or images you want featured on WebUrbanist? WebUrbanist is about collaboration and sharing knowledge concerning communities and art around the world. We welcome submissions of ideas, images, links, stories and even integrated posts. In turn, we will gladly credit authors and tipsters with bylines and links as appropriate. However, please understand that we will accept and reject submissions at our sole discretion.
Comments: Comments that are spammy will be deleted or modified. That means: put a name in the name field, not a domain name or targeted keywords. Critical as well as positive comments are welcome so long as they are intelligent and well-intentioned.
Credits: All images with known sources are credited to said sources either immediately following the image or in the paragraph immediately following the image. If an image is being used on this site that you own and wish to have removed or that is credited incorrectly please contact us and we will respond promptly. All images are either shrunk or montaged to allow their use under Fair Use conditions.
Contact: Want to thank, compliment or berate us? If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, compliments or suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact us using the form linked in the second paragraph above – and be sure to use a helpful subject line. Thank you for stopping by – please feel free to sign up for our feed so you won’t miss an article and be sure to check out WebEcoist, our sister site.
New to WebUrbanist? Click here for the feed see our full archives and urban image galleries. Also visit WebEcoist and see amazing architecture, incredible interiors, fantastic furniture at Dornob and great gadgets, strange science and tech with a twist at Gajitz.
