[Air-l] Location specific blogs

[USFDaisyP]

You all should take a look at what Lisa Williams is doing in collaboration
with the Center for Citizen Media/Dan Gillmor and Jay Rosen:
http://www.cadence90.com/wp/?p=4539

It's called Placeblogger.com and should launch pretty soon.  It's to be an
aggregator of all place blogs and from what I understand has a Yahoo Map
component as well.

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has video and audio posts of
Lisa explaining the project:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2006/11/08/america-at-sidewalk-level-placeblogs-as-a-lens-into-citizen-journalism-2/

Also, here's an web article from kairos on the topic:
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/coverweb/lindgren/index.htm

As someone from New Orleans who doesn't live there right now, I know I've
relied upon the list of blogs over at
http://thinknola.com/wiki/List_of_New_Orleans_bloggers to get a sense of
what people are dealing with on a day to day basis.  My dissertation plans
to focus on online responses to Hurricane Katrina and seeing all of these
voices go public at such times of crisis fascinates me.

Keep me posted on whatever other research you all come across!

Daisy Pignetti
University of South Florida
PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition
http://dpignett.blog.usf.edu

On 12/19/06, David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >>> For work that I am doing with Prof. Sharon Zukin on creative
> >>> cultural
> >>> producers in Brooklyn (New York), I are looking for studies of blogs
> >>> that originate in, and identify with, specific areas of cities.  How
> >>> common are such blogs?
>
>
> I know http://outside.in/ is trying to aggregate local information
> including locality-related blog postings - you could try contacting
> them and seeing if they have any clever ways of identifying local
> blogs...
>
> ---
> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
> School of Economics & Political Science
> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/
> mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm>
> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/
> (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog)
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