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August 16, 2007
Which City Is the Bloggiest of Them All?
readexpress.com
Who's the second most bloggiest and who cares?
SHAW IS NOT the nation's second bloggiest neighborhood, despite prior reports to the contrary. But Washington is the nation's fourth bloggiest metropolitan area, with Boston coming in at No. 1, followed by Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Maybe.
How exactly do you determine the "blogginess" of an area? Well, "[i]t's all empirical science, really," blogging entrepreneur Steven Berlin Johnson said to a room full of giddy Brooklyn bloggers at the blog-heavy borough's second-ever blogfest. (How many times can you use "blog" in a sentence? That many.)
Johnson, whose OutsideIn.com has been trying to make sense of location-centric blogging, recently came out with rankings of the nation's bloggiest cities, following up a similar study of the nation's most blog-heavy neighborhoods.
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But at the May 10 Brooklyn blogger gathering, Johnson, a Bethesda native and author of "Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate" and "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software," admitted that his results weren't always entirely scientific. For example, D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood, ranked as the nation's second-bloggiest neighborhood, really came in behind Brooklyn's blog-heavy neighborhoods of Prospect Heights, Gowanus, Park Slope and Clinton Hill, which ranked No. 1.So why alter the results?
Posted by lumi at August 16, 2007 8:02 AM