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We have the bloggiest neighborhood in the country, though Outside.in falsely gave the crown to Clinton Hill.

AtlanticYardsReport wrote:
Clinton Hill the "bloggiest" neighborhood? Nah, it's Prospect Heights

Outside.in, an innovative, venture capital-funded way to organize neighborhood information by collecting work by "placebloggers," has issued a press release claiming to identify America's Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods.

The number one neighborhood: Clinton Hill.

Nah.

The problem starts with Outside.in's methodology:
The results below are based on a number of variables: total number of posts, total number of local bloggers, number of comments and Technorati ranking for the bloggers.

That assumes that blogs are about one specific neighborhood and that the blog is included in Technorati. It also confuses the home of the blog with the subject of the blog.

Clinton Hill & AY

Here's what Outside.in says about its top-ranking nabe.

1. Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
The Neighborhood
The rapidly gentrifying tree-lined blocks of 19th-century townhouses are also home to the Pratt Institute of Art.

Local Blogger
Jonathan Butler, creator of Brownstoner, who quit his Wall Street job earlier this year to run his popular real estate and home renovation blog full-time.

Local Obsessions
Will the nearby mega-development Atlantic Yards destroy the neighborhood's quiet charm? Is the still-hot Brooklyn real estate market headed for a crash?

While Brownstoner is an interesting and popular blog, especially because of the robust comments section, it is hardly a blog focused exclusively on Clinton Hill. (Butler's based there.) Rather, it's a blog about Brooklyn real estate and neighborhoods faced with development.

And Atlantic Yards is hardly the "local obsession" that distinguishes Clinton Hill from other nearby neighborhoods. NoLandGrab is clearly the comprehensive source for Atlantic Yards-related information, with far more posts per day than Brownstoner's total on all topics.

But NLG doesn't accept comments, so, by Outside.in's standards, it's apparently less "bloggy." That doesn't stop Outside.in from relying most heavily on NLG in its Atlantic Yards section.

For more, go to http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2007/04/clinton-hill-bloggiest-neighborhood-nah.html


Thanks to Norman Oder for sticking up for us. He might qualify a an Honorary Prospect Heights Resident, but I think this his blood-alcohol ratio is too low.