Note: Much of the information on this page pertains to the submission and voting phase of the Capture My Chicago project. That phase has come to an end. However, please feel free to read up and see how the project came together.
RSS
We've got tons of RSS feeds for you to grab. What's an RSS feed? Put simply, it's a method for delivering content to you outside of this website, as a subscription, independent of a particular web browser. You'll find explanation of each feed below. For a more in-depth look at RSS and how to use it, check out the wikipedia entry for Web Feeds.
News Feed
Want to keep up with project news? This is the feed for you. You'll find all project news items and alerts in this feed, including challenges, giveaways, sales, photo highlights, contributor relations, and general happenings.
Grab the News feed here.
Weekly Picks
Obviously, there are a ton of photos on Capture My Chicago. Weekly Picks is a way to highlight a select few on a weekly basis in the form of an email (opt-in on your profile page) or RSS feed. So how do photos become a weekly pick? First, a few photos submitted in the last week that are extremely popular get picked. Local folks are voting thousands of times per day for their favorites. The higher-scoring photos become a weekly pick. Second, our editors pour over the site every day and hand-select a few photos to be a weekly pick. Third, a few photos that are marked as a local icon and that are high-scoring wind up in the mix. So, the Weekly Picks email/RSS is a great way to get a quick look at what's doing well here. Note: weekly picks are also featured in the info bar
Grab the Weekly Editors' Picks feed here.
Chapter Feeds
Each one of these feeds keeps you up to date on all photos submitted to a particular chapter. Want to see what the competition is uploading? This is your chance to be sure to see every photo for a chapter. Here's the feeds for each chapter:
- Friendly Faces
- Arts, Culture & Food
- Sports Spirit
- Scapes of All Sorts
- Recreation & Celebration
- Newsworthy
- Pets
- Landmarks & Architecture
User Feeds
If you love a particular photographer's work, you can follow his/her submissions by subscribing to their feed. Every time that photographer uploads a new photo, the feed will be updated. Figuring out a user's feed url is simple. All you need to know is the user's username. To figure it out, visit their profile page and look in your browser's address bar. Their username is right after http://capturemychicago.com/people/ in the URL bar at the top of your browser.
User feed example: http://capturemychicago.com/people/[username]/feed
Feeds