BlogChelsea Deemed Sidebar-Worthy

This week’s issue of Crain's New York Business has an article about neighborhood blogs (subscription required). Both Sherry and I were interviewed by the author, Amanda Fung, and she published an excerpt from one of my blog posts in a sidebar, though she didn’t waste any ink on us in the body of her article. One thing that Amanda was curious about was the demographic of bloggers. (It’s a common misconception that they are all teenagers.) I was recently at a conference which shed some light on the question. Bill Tancer, from Hitwise Research described the people who are part of the “participatory web” as being older, early adopters, and highly influential. He then went on to label them as falling into one of three categories:
1. Money & Brains
2. Young Digerati
3. Bohemian Mix
Too bad I didn’t have this information in time for Amanda’s article. (We’re the one’s with the money, by the way—Ha Ha!—the brains part goes without saying. There may be a few Bohemians living in our building.)
Amanda focused on the benefits of blogging, which include: the ability to break new stories, make new friends, and derive professional advancement from blogging. Thinking about this, I suppose we’ve broken a couple of stories, including (with www.jameswagner.com), the story about the illegal pink cupcake that was eventually picked up by Chelsea Now and The New York Post. As for professional development, Ed Hamilton, who also writes for this blog, now writes for Chelsea Now and The Villager. And, most importantly, we’ve made a lot of new friends through the blog.