There are bloggers of color in Boston
Somebody alert the Boston Globe, which ran a feature story about minority bloggers today without managing to quote a single one in its circulation area - unless you count Baratunde Thurston, who moved to New York months ago.
Here's a local black blogger, who certainly provides the "intellectual challenges to mainstream and other viewpoints" the Globe writer found so fascinating. And there are other minority bloggers, although most don't tend to focus on the politics of race and ethnicity.
But in thinking about it all, it seems like there is a blogging disparity in Boston: Why does Cambridge seem to have more bloggers than Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan combined? Or is that an equally dumb question, given how few bloggers seem to live in, oh, West Roxbury and South Boston? Am I just missing vast galaxies of local bloggers?
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an analysis of covariance would be useful here
Southie and Dorchester don't blog; Cambridge does. Hmmm.
According to Kinsey, blue-collar workers also masturbate less than white-collar ones. Coincidence?
Analysis of covariance
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Boston
Minorities in Boston?! Holy crap, alert the police!
Wait, whats that you say, they're literate too? Better send in SWAT.
I'm a minority
Being the last of a dying breed, I admit that I am a middle aged, middle class white guy. And I blog, too.
Why are there more bloggers
Why are there more bloggers - or apparently more bloggers - on the Cambridge side of the river?
MIT
Harvard
Davis Square aka the Red Line's other geek enclave outside MIT
ie, where are the technocrat yuppies (with whom I identify in demographics if not behavior) living, and there you have more blogs.
Good Point Adam
I wonder why the reporter didn't want to mention any bloggers here locally? There are a few of us. We shouldn't have to discuss race all the time in order to be considered blogs of color. Very annoying.
Color blogging?
When I saw "bloggers of color" in my RSS feed, I thought this was going to be about people who post pictures of pretty trees in the fall.
I saw that article yesterday
I saw that article yesterday and read with half interest and half amusement. It is true there are plenty of people of color who happen to blog in the Boston area. Not all of us talk about racial issues on the daily, but it did come across as the only useful purpose in the article. I do find it intriguing to come across the opinions of others who are similar to mine but have a different perspective. Take this for example, where he essentially wrote what I was thinking about the movie, American Gangster. I will agree that blogging is a domain full of techie and even the rookies (or less tech-savvy) get down with it on occasion. But I also don't think that the blogs that people post on facebook and myspace (& etc) seem to count when most folks talks about "counting" blogs which skims over a lot of voices; black, white, and every color in between.
Thanks for the link to his blog
Which I didn't know about; I'll add him to the blog directory and to my aggregator. Speaking of which, do you by chance an RSS feed for your blog? It's the main way I keep up with blogs these days, I must admit.
There's way more than just college kids!
I love this site and Boston Blogs because I've found so many cool, local blogs that I never would have found on my own.
I'm a white, twenty-something housewife blogger in Roslindale. Not too many of those, I would think. It takes all kinds, doesn't it?
He finds the article patronizing
Third Decade explains why - and why that's nothing new for the Globe.