Take pride in where you live

August 25, 2004 9:45 PM

State Blogs As a companion to the Blogs around the world project, Oscar Jr. posted the Blogs around the US project. His point/focus being blogs that focus on the US states in which they reside. All of this as a lead up to Big Sky Blog. A blog by Montanans, about Montana, a project of our own davidmsc. (Whoops, USAfilter. Miguel's gonna be pissed ...)
posted by Wulfgar! (10 comments total)

USAfilter. Miguel's gonna be pissed

Well, on one hand there is a link to a Portuguese Blog from the BATW site, but on the other hand, it doesn't come up at the moment, and the info on Portugal is from the CIA factbook, so...

As for the states, Utah seems to be unrepresented.
posted by weston at 10:17 PM on August 25, 2004

Wow, Wulgar! - great post! Double exclamation marks are in order. Montana is such a dream.

I think one of the great problems with us Europeans is that we don't realize how big and varied a country the U.S. is. A second, related problem is that we only know the distinctive characteristics of, at most, 3 or 4 states. This is a great help.

We're on the same ticket, buddy! :)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:48 PM on August 25, 2004

As for the states, Utah seems to be unrepresented.

Michigan's one listing seems to be a Republican talking points mem... er, blog, instead of one supposedly posting about the state. Oh, wait, there is a link to the Detroit News under "local paper" way at the bottom there. Never mind, my bad.
posted by snarkywench at 5:25 AM on August 26, 2004

(blushes) Thanks for the Pepsi mention, Wulfgar! And Miguel -- I appreciate your comment about how big & varied the US is...Montana is a perfect example of that -- larger than many countries, but less than one million people in our entire state. Makes for loooooong roads, but friendly people.
posted by davidmsc at 5:56 AM on August 26, 2004

one of the great problems with us Europeans is that we don't realize how big and varied a country the U.S. is

amen to that, miguel. i was flabbergasted when i realised i had to sit more than six hours on a plane to go from one coast to the other. btw, same point probably counts even more for canada.
posted by AwkwardPause at 6:24 AM on August 26, 2004

Michigan's one listing seems to be a Republican talking points...

All of the Minnesota blogs (not counting the one that's offline) and all of the Massachusetts blogs are also avowedly tilted to the right, and don't give me much feel for life or even blogging in those states. It kind of sucks the fun out of browsing to discover things, as suggested.

Hey, the Montana blog is cool though. Can anyone point to more like that? I've just moved to a Minnesota community apparently run by a blogging mafia (even the Chief of Police blogs).
posted by Zurishaddai at 8:27 AM on August 26, 2004

Michigan's one listing seems to be a Republican talking points mem... er, blog

snarkywench beat me to it!
posted by quonsar at 8:35 AM on August 26, 2004

Michigan's one listing seems to be a Republican talking points mem... er, blog

All but one of the TX links seem to be that way too. Is this more of a state-by-state roundup of conservabloggers?
posted by Ufez Jones at 9:07 AM on August 26, 2004

See also the City Stories project for more localized semiblogging.
posted by etoile at 6:02 PM on August 28, 2004

Make that link http://citystories.com/.
posted by Zurishaddai at 11:25 AM on August 30, 2004