On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Zukin, Sharon wrote:
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:15:53 -0500 From: "Zukin, Sharon" <SZukin@gc.cuny.edu> To: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca Cc: "Trujillo, Valerie" <VTrujillo@gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Question for listserv
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?
They are out there, but it is quite rare that they: 1. Identify first with the locality versus an individual writing primarily about a specific community - perhaps you are including both 2. Take a more neutral point of view I am interested in how a Northfield.Org style of community blog might complement our active "Issues Forums" model <http://e-democracy.org/if>. See: http://northfield.org also, http://locallygrownnorthfield.org Note the commercial Metro Blogging network: http://www.metroblogging.com Also, is this StarTribune initiative considered a local blog to you? http://www.buzz.mn/ They do use Drupal. I should note that how you define a "blog" might be very important. Our Issues Forums generate RSS feeds automatically and get sucked into Technorati's blog search engine. Does that make our Issues Forums technically blogs? As far as I can tell, if we simply added "pinging" when new topics are created (not commented on) and perhaps a bit stylist window dressing to the first post in topic, an active forum isn't really any different than a multi-editor blog. So you may want to include local online forums in your analysis. How is it possible to identify blogs
geographically?
Combine target geographic search terms with blogging terms. Check out: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=83453 Specifically: http://local.blogdigger.com/ Also note the "related blogs" results when you type in a place name: http://blogsearch.google.com Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org And what is the sociological research out there on
such blogs?
Please contact Valerie Trujillo vtrujillo@gc.cuny.edu
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