Whither the Seattle bloggers?
Nominations for the Bloggies came out a week ago, and I was hard-pressed to find any Seattle area bloggers on the list. Eventually, I did find Not Martha, Megan’s quirky little blog about crafting, is up for — natch — Best Craft Weblog. Congratulations to Megan! And all you Seattleites, vote early and vote often.
It did get me wondering, though — what happened to all the Seattle bloggers? Didn’t we used to dominate this? It seems like NYC, DC, SF, and LA are where the big blogs are, just as that’s where the national radio and TV networks eventually settled in the 1940s and 1950s. Are we becoming a blogging backwater?
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SLOG didn’t get nominated???? Where’s the justice!!!!
and no, that wasn’t said with a straight face.
To be fair, we didn’t get a nod, either. Nor did anyone else in the Metblogs network. OTOH, Seattlest’s mothership Gothamist is up for a Bloggie.
Is(n’t) this (like) “Grunge” all over again?!
There seems to be a national v. local problem here. I haven’t even glanced at this year’s Bloggies noms, but last year’s seemed to be dominated by blogs that aim for a national or world audience rather than local focus. (And there’s generally a good thing.) Maybe we’re too much into civic self reflection here for any of us worthy of consideration by the big Bloggie-voting audience.
But it is a bit scary that the big blogging voices are starting to concentrate around the same places where MSM is centered.
Hey all,
I called Nikolai Nolan, founder of the Bloggies, and got some perspective on Seattle’s place in the list of nominees, albeit not much. Check it out on Net Native, my blog at the P-I:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/netnative/archives/111030.asp