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July 01, 2006
The Forgotten Land of Metro Blogging
Before I moved to Chi-town, I searched out the city-focused blogs. I learned in DC that a love of place naturally leads to a love of place-based blogs. It's been awhile since I've read those blogs. Heck, it's been awhile since I've regularly read any blog. I know, I'm the worst kind of blogger - not contributing to the blogosphere readership myself. In my defense, I've been a tad busy running the free world (hah! just kidding...just trying to bring some organization to WILPF's program, an obsession which has taken over all of my free time).
In any event, I was recently alerted to the presence of an even better Chicago-focused blog, City in a Garden. It's tag line is "Chicago miscellany in bite-sized pieces." Having read all the entries (it just started this June), I can't wait for more.
And then of course, there's the Chicago Metroblog and Chicagoist. I have to say, these blogs kind of bore me. (Don't hate me for being honest!) I prefer reading The Reader or even Red Eye, for snippets about what's happenin here. And the aforementioned blogs really don't live up to the snarky standard of Gawker Media, but then again, they aint part of that empire & perhaps are trying to go for Midwest Nice over my preference of Coastal Snark.
This post is fast degenerating into drivel. I'd edit it to make it look nice and happy about the state of Chicago-focused blogging; but instead I'll just reiterate:
Posted by cj at July 1, 2006 04:44 PM