Benefits of Local Blogging
By Anthony | October 20th, 2006 | 9:24 pmJohn Robinson has one:
One of the benefits of a geographic-based blogging community (as opposed to a subject-based one) is that there is wide diversity of opinion on virtually every topic. It’s tough to be close-minded because people challenge you.
Exactly right. I’m sure it’s easy to think of others as well. One that jumps out at me is the increased opportunity for intersection between blogging and “the real world”. From Meetups, to RMA reports, to community activism, a local blogging community allows blogging to move from a purely intellectual exercise to something with a little more muscle to it.
October 21st, 2006 at 5:55 pm
A WHOLE lot of muscle Anthony. The people have been given their voice at last. It is the town hall meeting but on a global scale if the writer wishes it to be. On a local level a perfect example of the muscle bloggers have is the Wray case. Without the blogging community and Joe Guarino in particular David Wray would have been gone and buried. But with the people having a readily available way to communicate with each other and their leaders the ugly underbelly of Greensboro officialdom/politics is being exposed layer by layer.
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 am
Brenda, thanks for your comment. I’m not sure I agree 100% with all your points, but I definitely agree that the people being given their voice, as you said, has pretty important implications.