Comments on: The Two Percenters

By: dave in Rocha

dave in Rocha — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:26:35 +0000

I have to echo everything that RaChaCha said. I don’t regularly check any Rocha blogs, and I can’t think of any equivalent to WNYM.net out here.

I am a little surprised that so many people are seeing this as proof that there’s no young people around and that it’s another nail in Buffalo’s coffin. If that’s the case, why is Syracuse and Rocha 7% points higher? Doesn’t make sense.

By: Syracuse among top 20 blogging cities : NYCO’s Blog

Syracuse among top 20 blogging cities : NYCO’s Blog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:00:06 +0000

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By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:05:56 +0000

Blogger* – Adult who has read or contributed to a blog within the past 30 days
Internet Users** – Adults who have accessed the Internet within the past 30 days

That is exactly how Scarborough Research defined it. Astute content and comments weren’t part of it.

By: Purdman

Purdman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:34:59 +0000

@TseTse: You hit on a good point. I have to assume that a standard percentage of Buffalo’s 18-to-35-year-olds make use of MySpace, LiveJournal, Blogger, Twittr, Flickr and the like to post their thoughts on cats and what was for lunch today, and many of them wouldn’t consider themselves “bloggers,” per se. If the measurement is based on comments and posts on free-standing blogs, then we lose to big youth cities by default. As anyone in the advertising-driven blog world will tell you, reliable online readership metrics are scarce stuff indeed.

By: RaChaCha

RaChaCha — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:59:26 +0000

OK, let’s shorten it up a bit – I swear this the last you’ll hear from me today:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/blogs/penfield/2007/10/dirt-piles-are-fun-to-play-in.html

By: RaChaCha

RaChaCha — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:56:39 +0000

If reference to my comment above: as much as it pains me to be cruel, if you want to check out a quick example of the quality of the Rochester fishwrapper’s “citizen blogs”, here you go:
[http://www.democratandchronicle.com/blogs/penfield/2007/10/dirt-piles-are-fun-to-play-in.html]

Scout’s honor, this is genuine.

By: RaChaCha

RaChaCha — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:23:48 +0000

Hey BP and all, as a Rochester resident and fan of Buffalo this one has me scratching my head – that Rochester came in with 9% and Buffalo just 2%! I’m trying to think what Rochester-area blogs people might be looking at, and drawing a blank – they’re all quite lame, including (ahem) one I tried my hand at earlier this year. In fact, our local fishwrapper decided to try being hip and getting all down with that jiggy Blog-O-Sphere (word!) and got volunteers to be “citizen bloggers” for each of the communities in the coverage area. But most of them are quite lame (seeing a common theme here?) and on the odd occasion that one of them really brings to the fore some bit of juicy news about a local politician, for example, our cowardly fishwrapper refuses to follow up with any “real” coverage saying “those aren’t *really* our blogs, we just provide the server space. (wink)”

There isn’t a single Rochester-area blog I check regularly, but I do love and frequent several Buffalo-area blogs such as BRO, Fix Buffalo Today, Broadway Fillmore Alive, and – no pandering I swear – BP. Also, I often tell people here in My Fair City how Buffalo’s bloggers are playing a real and significant role in the City’s revitalization. Look at David “Fix Buffalo” Torke’s outing of Rev. Stenhouse, who now finds himself OFF the Buffalo Control Board (yea!). Look at the attention brought to bear on community development issues by BRO. Look at the new sense of identity and energy brought to Polonia by Broadway Fillmore Alive. Look – if you dare! – at the ugly record of Sen. Dale Volker assembled for your perusal by BP. Oh, nearly forgot: I recently finished Mark Goldman’s latest, “City on the Edge,” which mentions Buffalonians checking the latest on BRO. To make a long story short, my view from afar is that blogs and blogging play a significant role in Buffalo.

Then why such a low score for Buffalo, and (even more mysteriously) such a high score for RaChaCha–? Maybe all of us are reading your Buffalo blogs!

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Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:46:52 +0000

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We Need to be Realistic « BuffaloBloodDonor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:26:29 +0000

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By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:43:39 +0000

So I gather that all of you went down the list of characteristics and went “Yep.Yep.Yep…”

If it had been a test, I would have flunked. I guess that makes me “atypical”, which might account for “boring”.

Well, I guess I’ll go manicure my nails and then write about it – carefully.