Don't get me wrong, there are some good ones out there, like baltimorecrime and but aggregating any blogspot.com blog based in baltimore could lead to an amateur-ish opinion of the site. Although written by locals, most of the content was not about local.

By the way, just saw one of our posts pop up on the site. Not exactly one that showcases our reporting

Moving the blogs to the center is a very good thing. Losing the full list is a step backward, in my opinion.

One other thing that the center well is designed to do is allow for regularly-updated features on local bloggers. Whether that gets implemented is up to the staff at b.

The 'b' also lost a little luster when they eliminated anonymous comments. With a staff of 21, someone could have taken time out to play bad cop.

Though b's use of links is still fairly rudimentary, it was the central-focus of the business plan at launch (since somewhat watered down with more internal content). The idea was that the audience b is trying to reach (think: 20something) doesn't need yet another traditional news source on the web, but they might find something akin to a local Fark or Drudge useful.

Jeff Jarvis had a short but critical post this summer discussing the notion of a “link economy,” in which he argues that the value of an online site is more in the links it has to other relevant content than what it creates on its own:

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/18/the-link-…

Don't get me wrong, there are some good ones out there, like baltimorecrime and but aggregating any blogspot.com blog based in baltimore could lead to an amateur-ish opinion of the site. Although written by locals, most of the content was not about local.

By the way, just saw one of our posts pop up on the site. Not exactly one that showcases our reporting

Moving the blogs to the center is a very good thing. Losing the full list is a step backward, in my opinion.

One other thing that the center well is designed to do is allow for regularly-updated features on local bloggers. Whether that gets implemented is up to the staff at b.

The 'b' also lost a little luster when they eliminated anonymous comments. With a staff of 21, someone could have taken time out to play bad cop.

Don't get me wrong, there are some good ones out there, like baltimorecrime and but aggregating any blogspot.com blog based in baltimore could lead to an amateur-ish opinion of the site. Although written by locals, most of the content was not about local.

By the way, just saw one of our posts pop up on the site. Not exactly one that showcases our reporting

Moving the blogs to the center is a very good thing. Losing the full list is a step backward, in my opinion.

One other thing that the center well is designed to do is allow for regularly-updated features on local bloggers. Whether that gets implemented is up to the staff at b.

The 'b' also lost a little luster when they eliminated anonymous comments. With a staff of 21, someone could have taken time out to play bad cop.

Though b's use of links is still fairly rudimentary, it was the central-focus of the business plan at launch (since somewhat watered down with more internal content). The idea was that the audience b is trying to reach (think: 20something) doesn't need yet another traditional news source on the web, but they might find something akin to a local Fark or Drudge useful.

Jeff Jarvis had a short but critical post this summer discussing the notion of a “link economy,” in which he argues that the value of an online site is more in the links it has to other relevant content than what it creates on its own:

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/18/the-link-…