Blogs and Brooklyn

dw438

Begin your comments now ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/nyregion/thecity/08blog1.html?ref=thecity

veets

Oh geez.. What is wrong with me.. I have a big mouth and know how to write but knowing that it is a "hip" thing to Blog or whatever just turns me off..
It makes me want to buy another pair of Crocs in orange....and to express zero creativity about anything!!!1

livetotravel

Well I am growing tired of NYTimes writers who live in Brooklyn, especially PS, writing about it. Isn't there something else more newsworthy - like universal health care?

And I do think blogs in Brooklyn are skewed to largely white, well-educated, higher income audiences and as a result are a bit elitist and exclusive - is the fact that not all Brooklyn neighborhoods have blogs news to anyone? Is the reason they do not news to anyone?

Anyway - I'm thinking about getting a pair of black Crocs to wear with a Speedo. Whatta ya think?

livetotravel

Not to belabor the point - but this recent post from Ms Crawford I think supports my point...

"New York Times' reporter Greg Beyers emailed me to say that his article about the Brooklyn blogging scene will be in the City section this Sunday. He's been working on it since before the Brooklyn Blogfest on May 10th. There was a New York Times' photographer at the recent Brooklyn Blogade Roadshow at Vox Pop. I'm excited to see the article.

I'll be on an island where they probably don't get the City section and the Internet is spotty. Hmmmm. What's a blogger to do?

Dang.

veets

I am so "Hip" that I read the NY Times Sunday section article on Saturday!!

Totally loved the part of the mommy chanting.. "Blah Blah.. there is the mommy j walking (I misquote).. It so reminded me of about me 8 years ago when I heard a mommy in the grocery chit chatting about string beans and how "we" don't buy frozen.. WE only buy fresh. I was beside myself with amusement and shock.. Well fast forward afew years after that and I was in the same place (C Town) with my then 2 year old grandson explaining to him the difference between spices.. ""See the dill!! Smell the Cilantro!! blah blah.. I had turned in to a Caricature of my worst self and now that worst is being documented in the Sun Times.. Woe is ME!

ljnd

Eh, Veets, I find that you can't be in this neighborhood w/o being a foodie, so surrender, you know? Resistance is futile....Now jaywalking - I am a mom of 2, and I jaywalk...only when the kids are not with me. Yeah! Yeah! I'm a hypocrite AND a jaywalker!!!!

caaahyoko

ljnd wrote: Eh, Veets, I find that you can't be in this neighborhood w/o being a foodie, so surrender, you know? Resistance is futile....Now jaywalking - I am a mom of 2, and I jaywalk...only when the kids are not with me. Yeah! Yeah! I'm a hypocrite AND a jaywalker!!!!

Well, the cars will kill ya if you can't move as fast. However, despite many apparent fears, frozen string beans will not.

No wonder the frozen corn was on sale at C-Town.

brooklynpotter

veets wrote: I am so "Hip" that I read the NY Times Sunday section article on Saturday!!

Totally loved the part of the mommy chanting.. "Blah Blah.. there is the mommy j walking (I misquote).. It so reminded me of about me 8 years ago when I heard a mommy in the grocery chit chatting about string beans and how "we" don't buy frozen.. WE only buy fresh. I was beside myself with amusement and shock.. Well fast forward afew years after that and I was in the same place (C Town) with my then 2 year old grandson explaining to him the difference between spices.. ""See the dill!! Smell the Cilantro!! blah blah.. I had turned in to a Caricature of my worst self and now that worst is being documented in the Sun Times.. Woe is ME!

my neighbor had a last-minute emergency and her SIX year old came up to my apartment for a few hours. i tried to offer him snacks, but for each thing he asked, "is it organic milk?" "is the peanut butter organic?" "do you have any organic honey" ... then he said that he only ate organic food and asked why i didn't have organic food because it's better for you. i told him i couldn't afford organic food. i don't think he understood what that meant.

brooklynpotter

and there were two brooklyn articles this weekend: the one about blogging, and the one about why people hate it here

dw438

God help us all.
I think someone has to write the NY Times and kind of tweak them a little bit ... to write about other Brooklyn neighborhoods ... different kinds of people ... not just the smarmy Smartmom and her ilk. Logrolling does get kind of sickening after a while. And so does that lack of creativity on the Times' staff - they're always picking up stuff from local blogs and/or local weeklies and almost passing it off as their own - and even if they do, that shows a kind of laziness on their part, eh?
Truly Gawker material.

splunge

Subject: and b/c they can't find ham in the coolers

brooklynpotter wrote: and there were two brooklyn articles this weekend: the one about blogging, and the one about why people hate it here

people hate brooklyn b/c there's too much whining on the blogs, you know.

raw

I love it when reporters "report" on blogging and when bloggers blog on "reportage" of their own blogs. Is this what happens to media when newspapers can't afford to send their reporters on location to report more imortant events?

I guess readers are more interested in reading reporters' comments on blogs than reading about President Bush sealing deals with credit card companies and Americans who fought war in Iraq dying in America due to lack of health insurance.

anfield

Pop Bitch (addictive British gossip/general celebrity piss taking messageboard) says that Clinton Hill has the highest number of blogs per capita in the world! How they know this, I don't know, but they do know things!
Edited. Whoops, I didn't read the NYT article, obviously. I only read blogs, and Brooklyn ones at that.