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Jersey blogs!

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Jersey blogs!
: Blogger, NY Times contributor, and all around good guy Debra Galant has a nice story on Jersey blogs in the Times Jersey section, which, unfortunately, is not online (hey, says the Times, it’s only Jersey). But Debra kindly put up the text on her blog. The lead is our NJ.com blogger MeetUp; the kicker is yours truly. Sadly, inbetween, some dastardly editor cut out mentions of some of her favorite blogs (repeat after me: Why do we like weblogs? No editors!), so Debra links to them on her blog. See how well blogs and print work together?

7 responses to “Jersey blogs!”

  1. Myles Weissleder Avatar
    Myles Weissleder

    great piece.
    it’s a fact: earned media fuels meetups. blogger meetups (or x meetups) are (and can be) local stories everywhere.
    it’s a shame debra didn’t actually refer to the northern nj convergence as the blogger meetup that it was.

  2. bob Avatar
    bob

    See how well blogs and print work together?
    Yeah, sort of like cats and dogs.

  3. hugh macleod Avatar
    hugh macleod

    Hyperlocal blogging is pretty essential for the blogvertising market to go. The current blogosphere is far too disapated, IMHO.

  4. Debra Galant Avatar
    Debra Galant

    Oh, the editors weren’t that bad. They just cut out a reference to Eszter Hargittai and some nice antecdotes about various blogs, like the controversy over escalator etiquette going on at nj.com’s Transit Blog. It was for space.
    Jeff, would I sound like an ingrate if I pointed out that my last name just has one “L” ? I’m not sure the search engines can find me with two.

  5. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Debra… Sorry! Fixed. (That, I believe, is how the other Deborah Gallant with whom I used to work spelled her name(s))

  6. button Avatar
    button

    Jeff, you and I will have to continue to *agree to disagree* on this point: it isn’t “unfortunately.” I think you are still in deep denial about this. It is pure malice and malicious on their part. And you still just don’t want to deal with it.
    What about their extended campaign to depict NJ as a giant goose poop toilet? Do you really believe that happened just by accident? Oh, pul-leeze!
    The NY Times is part of the problem; not part of the solution.
    The NJ Section was developed for the sole purpose of increasing their advertising revenue.The “news” material was always intended only as filler material for the ads. And you still don’t want to accept that.

  7. brett Avatar
    brett

    Also see the front-page article in the Oregonian on a local political blogger:
    http://oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1080565178279420.xml
    and his blog:
    http://http://communique.portland.or.us/