DC Neighborhood Blogs?
Where are all the Neighborhood Blogs?
A new blog about Delray, and some other points.
Self-publishing is one of the most powerful and liberating tools of our age, and neighborhoods that have made a conscious decision to limit discussion of local issues to mailing lists are missing out. Mailing lists may be easy to join, but they're not easily accessible and searchable. Most importantly, local blogs can extend community awareness beyond neighborhoods and help identify common problems, trends and inequalities. The ability to easily document issues with photographs, audio and video feed adds an impact that mailing lists can't deliver. Neighborhood blogs are inevitable, but it would happen quicker in DC and in neighboring communities if mailing list managers, and their more active participants, began offering blogs as companions to mailing lists. The list of neighborhood blogs in this area -- a Metro area of 5 million -- remains surprisingly small.
With this, we're alerted to a new neighborhood blog in Alexandria focusing on the charming Delray neighborhood. Check it out.
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Dcfud is looking for writers
dcblogs.com/live update: 64 blogs were added to the live listing Sunday. Hopefully, I got in all the blogs requested. If I’m missing some, let me know and I’ll fix it on the next update. The art on the new blogs are auto generated place holders. I’ll be replacing them. If you have your own art and want to send it to me, that will be appreciated.
posted by kob @ 12:50 AM
2 Comments:
thanks for the del ray neighborhood link -- as a del ray citizen i'm especially glad to see the local chatter!
additionally, re: the dcblogs.com/live feed icons, do you have any size specifications?
The max length is 160 pixels but it also has to be height proportional. It can't be as tall as wide. Don't worry so much about sizing; i can resize to fit. Thanks for asking.
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