Comments on: Outside.in Head Talks ’Place Blogs’ (and More) http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2006/11/12/outsidein-head-talks-place-blogs-and-more/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Mark Myers http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2006/11/12/outsidein-head-talks-place-blogs-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2694 Steven’s "long tail" comment seems to presume that we "hyper-local" bloggers are at it to make revenue. At the risk of sounding hopelessly stuck in the early 90’s, I’ll point out that my blog The Multnomah Villager is something that I maintain as a side project and not as a potential career. I agree that this approach relegates one to the 100-hits a week level. I have a few issues with the necessity for "aggregators". While I appreciate any traffic they send my way (especially since I recently added Google Ads – how’s that for invalidating my earlier statement about revenue?), I’m not so sure that the presence of aggregators makes local blogs or content easier to find.

My search performace on Google is enough – why search to find an aggregator when a Google search for the content itself will do? The use of the META ICBM tags helps with my serach performance as well. I really like outside.in’s Google maps integration, and how it change the focus area of the content, but I will wait to see whether or not building additional content links alongside the ’blogs results in something more than a Web 2.0 version of Citysearch. That may not be a bad thing….

And I’m not crazy about sites making ad revenue off of displaying my content, but like I said, I’m not in this for a living, so I’m not getting all hot and bothered about that.

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