Anton Zuiker got a nice article (about blogging and the local blogging community) published in Raleigh News & Observer. The article is here and Anton's personal version can be found here. Smartly, the article contains the URL of Blogtogether, so perhaps people will see it and register for the Science Blogging Conference or show up at the next meetup.
Oh, while there, you can also see two additional pictures of me from ConvergeSouth that Anton took - one with Elizabeth Edwards and the other with Maryam Scoble.
Addendum: Since I did not get my hardcopy of N&O (yet, I will soon), I did not know that there are several more articles on blogging there today. Abel links to them and comments.
Update: Paul Jones adds some thoughts (and useful links that N&O failed to provide), including more ammunition for my excuse not to have seen other peoples' articles, including an article by another friend - Ruby Sienreich - who I would have linked immediately if only I have known. It took going out and getting a hardcopy to see she was in there!
Also interesting is the choice of blogs they chose to highlight - focusing on blogs with a distinctly local flavor, covering local issues (politics, environment, etc.). No mention of the best local aggregator!? I do not want to put down those blogs - they are all excellent and worth checking out even if you are not residing in the Triangle - but it is interesting they did not mention the area's most popular blogs, i.e., popular outside the Triangle, nationally, perhaps internationally. So, I visited the Sitemeters of several local blogs I suspect have a large readership and this is what I found (average daily visits in parantheses):
Panda's Thumb 5,387
Pam's House Blend 3,649
Is That Legal 808
Silflay Hraka 727
A Blog Around The Clock 715 (and this is my all-time low since moving to Seed's Scienceblogs - it is usually 800-1200)
Anyone else in the area who has big traffic that I may have missed?
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Good points, Bora! I responded on my blog but I'll repeat the relevant part:
You're probably correct if you look at blogs by daily traffic. And it certainly would have helped to elevate the stature of bloggers by noting what large and devoted followings they have around the world.
I could argue that they chose blogs that are more influential locally, but the simple fact is that the N&O knows very little about blogs and blogging (despite meekly attempting to do it for the past year). As I said at the very top of this post, they have stuck a naive toe in the fray without seeming to have any context on the vast discussion that has been going on for years.