You all should take a look at what Lisa Williams is doing in collaboration with the Center for Citizen Media/Dan Gillmor and Jay Rosen: http://www.cadence90.com/wp/?p=4539 It's called Placeblogger.com and should launch pretty soon. It's to be an aggregator of all place blogs and from what I understand has a Yahoo Map component as well. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has video and audio posts of Lisa explaining the project: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2006/11/08/america-at-sidewalk-lev... Also, here's an web article from kairos on the topic: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/coverweb/lindgren/index.htm As someone from New Orleans who doesn't live there right now, I know I've relied upon the list of blogs over at http://thinknola.com/wiki/List_of_New_Orleans_bloggers to get a sense of what people are dealing with on a day to day basis. My dissertation plans to focus on online responses to Hurricane Katrina and seeing all of these voices go public at such times of crisis fascinates me. Keep me posted on whatever other research you all come across! Daisy Pignetti University of South Florida PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition http://dpignett.blog.usf.edu On 12/19/06, David Brake <d.r.brake@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
For work that I am doing with Prof. Sharon Zukin on creative cultural producers in Brooklyn (New York), I are looking for studies of blogs that originate in, and identify with, specific areas of cities. How common are such blogs?
I know http://outside.in/ is trying to aggregate local information including locality-related blog postings - you could try contacting them and seeing if they have any clever ways of identifying local blogs...
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