As I looked through the list of CT blogs, I was struck by the total randomness of the listings. In the CT super-site, it just shows snippets of what's been posted recently on CT blogs. I guess to be a CT blog, you just have to sign up as one?? Or maybe they did a search for people who listed Connecticut in their profiles?
The site says the following: "The goal of Connecticut Weblogs is to help draw attention to state blogs and bloggers." That makes some kind of sense if the blogs featured were focused on CT. From what I can see, however, that isn't a common link. The blogs are about anything, everything. So is categorizing Connecticut blogs creating a distinction without a difference? If these blogs have nothing more in common than that their masters are sitting at computers somewhere in CT (and I'm not sure that's even true), than what is the function of this listing of blogs?
The only answer that I can see, since the label of "Connecticut Blog" has nothing to do with the content or substance of the blog, is that people have an innate need to impose order on chaos. If the blogdom is chaotic (surely true), than all we're doing with a list of CT is trying to determine some commonality, some theme, some sense, of what other people in CT are talking about and looking at. To talk about "Connecticut blogs," is, to me, really just to sit in the cafeteria and evesdrop on the surrounding conversations, in order to see what's going on with those in my Connecticut community.
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I agree, I thought that website was absolutely insane in its categorization. It seemed like there was no limit on what they would post. The only really useful part was scrolling through the links. I wonder how we might define what a regional blog is.
But does it really matter if CT bloggers write whatever they want as long as this one-stop-shopping website allows them to learn about each other? A lot goes on behind the scnees via e-mail. As the elections come close, the CT bloggers of similar persuasions will find each others easily there. If any kind of local action is warranted, the CT bloggers will quickly spring to action. Greensboro, NC, bloggers have pioneered such bloggers' leadership in the community. Check out greensboro101.com and NCblogs.com for comparison.
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