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The Press Hunt for Local Bloggers

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Blogging guru stops, for a while, in Seattle.  From 2004-09-22: Kristi Heim of the Seattle Times dropped in on the September Seattle Web Logger Meetup and has beautifully characterized Dave Winer's appearance on the scene.  Naturally, we are all blogging about it.

One thing for me is that, chatting with Dave, I realized that I had misjudged our relative ages. We were looking at times when the world looked bleak before, and I was thinking of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs fiasco before that, experiences, like the Korean War, that Dave had only heard of.  (The first presidential election that I was old enough to vote in was held in 1960.  I voted for Nixon.  I really did.  I didn't regret the result, though.)  So I guess the reason I rank myself as a contemporary with Dave is not that he is wise beyond his years (which of course he is), rather that he is as young as I feel [;<).

In a related article, Kristi covers more information around the question she brought with her to the Meetup and that I am still thinking about.  It has to do with how much blogs figure in local civic life.  For me, blogs are a way of extending my reach across time and space to kindred spirits that share my niche interests.  The same happens with my web sites, which are predominantly devoted to my intellectual and professional pastimes.  And I share my neighborhood (funky West Seattle) along with others who share their original home towns and their new home cities.

It is interesting to see that there are local issues that connect bloggers and to see how passionate people are.  I'm proud of the Monorail initiative and I can see there is value in letting people know that there is more to it than waiting for a perfect solution the way we usually paralyze transportation innovations around here.  I think I'll be blogging about that, after I check out the Shark Blog.

I did that.  I need to calibrate my prediction after the results are certified.  The Monorail "recall" initiative failed, but I don't think I got the numbers.  We'll know soon.

posted by orcmid at 9/22/2004 08:06:11 AM