There Goes the Neighborhood, Again
The bay area Blogosphere is abuzz! (A single blog post counts as abuzz, right?) KRON, San Francisco's last frontier of independant broadcasting and infomercials, has finally gotten around to launching that blog-about-blogs they've been talking about.
SFist wrote to the station awhile back and offered to lend them a hand with the whole blogging thing, since cityblogging is something that we like to think we've gotten rather good at. After all, imagine how cool it would be if this blogosphere-KRON reacharound picks up steam: both parties have oh so much to teach each other!
We were a little hurt when KRON didn't write back to us, but now we understand why: clearly, they were busy working around the clock to completely perfect their superfanastic hyperuseful orgasmobeautiful trackback-resistant website.
Employing a sexxxy red color scheme, KRON is up and blogging at TheBayAreaIsTalking.com. (And also at KronNews.com, though that particular domain seems to be giving them some trouble.)
Managed by Brian Shields, a local Online News Manager, novelist, and Selwyn grad, TBAIT recaps what's going on with other local blogs: such-and-such is talking about the Downing Street memo, someone else just came back from a trip to Austin, another blog is unhappy about the president. Stop the presses! No, seriously. Stop them.
There's also some recapping of non-local AP news, and a few words about what working in a newsroom is like that are are actually pretty interesting.
We wish there was more of that KRON-insider stuff -- where else can you get an inside scoop on working next to hard-boiled reporters and local "personalities" like Jan Wahl? If TBAIT turned into an inward-looking blog about what's going on at KRON -- rather than an outward-looking metablog about, you know, whatever -- we'd definitely be loyal readers. But as it is now, reading TBAIT is like reading a small, random sampling of local blogs ... only you have no control over which blogs are being recapped at any given time ... and they're summarized so briefly, you lose the style and personality of the original blogger's writing. Awesome!