NOVA's Not Part of the "Washington area?"
By: Lowell
Published On: 1/11/2007 5:30:41 PM
Maybe not, if I'm reading Marc Fisher's latest blog post correctly:
DC Bloggers Summit: What, No Shrimp?
To be fair, I actually heard no complaints whatsoever from the assembled 100 or so Washington area bloggers who attended the region's first bloggers' summit at The Washington Post this week.
OK, I realize that getting to Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax from DC does require crossing the Potomac ocean River and all. Still, we all read the Washington Post and most of us reside inside the Capital Beltway. But, for whatever reason, NOVA apparently is not considered part of the Washington area when it comes to blogging. Strange.
Anyway, I thought this sounded interesting; how about you?
Some bloggers welcomed a Post.com initiative that would put local ads on blogs and send some moola to bloggers, and others seemed eager to win credit from the Post for their news scoops. The Post's Jonathan Krim unveiled early plans for a local blog directory that washingtonpost.com readers could use to search for blogs in their neighborhoods or their favorite topic areas.
Even if they're not considered part of Greater Washington, I presume that most NOVA bloggers wouldn't mind a little "moolah" sent their way by the Washington Post, or getting credit for their news scoops. That is, unless the Post has decided to write off Virginia and focus only on DC wards 1, 2, 3 and possibly 4.
P.S. Interestingly, Arlington and Alexandria were part of the District until 1847, when they were "retroceded." Maybe DC is still sore about that? Ha. :)
Comments
Washington AREA (pitin - 1/11/2007 7:10:54 PM)
I love how the posts writes about the "Washington Area" and excludes NoVA.
WashingtonPost.com... (davebain - 1/11/2007 7:42:54 PM)
Last I checked the washingtonpost.com HQ was *in* NoVA, that is, right at Courthouse in Arlington.
David Bain? (Bernie Quigley - 1/11/2007 9:20:10 PM)
Hi David - Nice coincidence; I was just emailing an old friend of yours & mine - my colleague Brian from Wake Forest - and as I stopped back here for some info. for him I saw your name. I was just saying to Brian that Richmond needs a professional organization - a "Mudcat Institute or Council" say - to advance the Jarding/Saunders paradigm throughout the South, the West and the Midwest as I described below - possibly at the U. of Richmond (if you are in Virginia, maybe you can lobby it with Brian). Email and we'll chat: quigleydude@yahoo.com. Recall the Russian pilot hat I got when you came back from Russia - 'bout '89? My kids still wear it. - Bernie Quigley, Haverhill, NH
Perhaps I'm missing something (Sui Juris - 1/11/2007 8:16:42 PM)
where's the slight against NoVA? It even mentions a Loudon-focused blog . . .
I don't know anyone from RK (Lowell - 1/11/2007 8:37:08 PM)
or any other NOVA blog who was invited to this.
Bloggers directory (Terry85 - 1/11/2007 9:02:46 PM)
"The Post's Jonathan Krim unveiled early plans for a local blog directory that washingtonpost.com readers could use to search for blogs in their neighborhoods or their favorite topic areas."
There can never be enough of these, especially since most of those that do exist, aren't very effective (from my experience, at least).
My two cents (Rebecca - 1/11/2007 11:37:42 PM)
I think the Post is trying to figure out how to steer some of the blog audience to its website and trying to figure out how to make some money off blogs. If you look at the software they use for comments on their opinion pieces it will become clear exactly what they think of bloggers. The software does not display apostrophes, quotes, and other puctuation. It also will not accept a carriage return so people can have more than one paragraph. In addition, there is no preview button so many typos end up in the posts. The sum total effect is to make bloggers appear to be illiterate, and generally uneducated. I think that's exactly what they want.
Bunch of Snooty Marylanders, no doubt (demnan - 1/12/2007 10:10:44 AM)
I remember when Prince William County was considered the backwoods red neck center of the world by all the inside Beltway types. But the returns from Prince William County decided the Senate, so there all you snooty socialities from Bethesda!