Jun 13, 06:29 pm: Is a blog the right thing to start?

Ruby, who knows more about blogging a community than almost anyone I know, shares some great advice in “So you wanna start a local politics blog”: http://lotusmedia.org/so-you-wanna-start-a-local-politics-blog. As I read it, though, I wondered is a blog the best thing to start.

I mean, Ruby talks about the fact that Orange Politics is not trying to be a newspaper. As she says, they are ”...not trying to be objective or journalistic.”

But still, it seems that there is a lot of information out there about almost any location. Go ahead: plug your city into the search on flickr, del.icio.us, or technorati. You’re going to find a lot.

There’s a role, I think, for organizing the information that is already available. It’s not easy enough yet — it’s about cut-and-pasting or learning about tools like Drupal. More and more, I’m thinking that this step — information aggregation and organization — is the step that comes before blogging.

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