August 20, 2008
Why Tennessee’s blogosphere is well connected
Jennifer Peebles is right to credit Glenn Reynolds for his major role in inspiring Tennessee’s active and ample blogosphere, but I think the original NashvilleIsTalking site is a big reason why our blogosphere is as connected as it is:
Welcome to the Tennessee political blogosphere: where citizen journalists, amateur pundits and wiseacres with broadband access endlessly type and snipe. It’s a well established, highly organized and highly readable subculture with a devoted following among political junkies, casual Web surfers, politicians and reporters alike…
“There are a ton of Texas bloggers … but they don’t ever seem to talk or know each other,” [Betsy] Phillips (aka Aunt B) said. By contrast, Tennessee bloggers seem to have a much stronger sense of group identity, as she learned after [a] would-be attack on her identity. “It was one of the first lessons I had in that kind of cohesive spirit of the Tennessee blogosphere,” she said. “There’s a sense that we all do this, and we can have our fights and still stay kind of nice.”
Thank you, Mike Sechrist and Brittney Gilbert, for helping us all get to know each other out here. If you’re looking for another example of Tennessee’s blogosphere rallying around one of its own, look no further than Katherine Coble.
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Jim said,
August 20, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
The thriving Nashville blog scene, which my business was in the center of for some time, was completely a result of Nashville is Talking, and the way Mike let Brittney handle it.
Rob Robinson said,
August 20, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
I agree. I’ve noticed several posts making the same point I did, so at least that fact is not lost on those of us who are digital Nashvillians. We owe Mike and Brittney big time for helping us make the inroads we have.