Around South Blogistan – Jan. 25, 2010

By Brian Hedden, Monday, January 25, 2010, 6:30 am
Blogwrap

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(The totally awesome, valuable, and so naturally slated for demolition Feltman’s Kitchen mural as seen in 2007. Photo credit: Brian Hedden)

Last week, I met up with Ned Berke, editor of Sheepshead Bites and all around cool dude. While talking with him, I mentioned that I think Sheepshead Bites is the best news blog in Brooklyn right now. Which is extremely high praise, considering (a) the sheer number of hyper-local news blogs here – Brooklyn has been determined to have the most bloggers per block or per square mile or per normal person or some damn thing by an actual academic study on the subject – and (b) that a number of those people take citizen-journalism very, very seriously and are running circles around traditional news outlets.

Funny thing about that, though. That’s a reputation earned largely by the North Brooklyn blogforce – yet there are any number of South Brooklyn news blogs I would pick as “best” before looking north, even without Sheepshead Bites. Certainly GerritsenBeach.net deserves extremely high praise as well – not just Dan Cavanagh’s reporting, but his lovable community of commenters. Is that regional bias? Perhaps… but I also think we have a lot of really interesting – and underreported – stories in this corner of the town, and more than a handful of good writers to cover them.

Which explains the length of this week’s wrap!

Comments

Comment from Tricia
Time January 25, 2010 at 4:38 pm

RE “considering (a) the sheer number of hyper-local news blogs here – Brooklyn has been determined to have the most bloggers per block or per square mile or per normal person or some damn thing by an actual academic study on the subject – and (b) that a number of those people take citizen-journalism very, very seriously and are running circles around traditional news outlets.”

Very entertainingly and truly put!

Comment from Ned Berke | Sheepshead Bites
Time January 25, 2010 at 7:44 pm

Thanks for the kind words. When you said it to me, I thought you were trying to grease the wheel and win a drink – but now that it’s in public, I’m blushing. So… is there, like, a financial reward for this recognition like when someone wins a Nobel? ;)

Comment from Brian Hedden
Time January 25, 2010 at 10:27 pm

@Ned – Of course, I’ll make sure you get my Roll-N-Roaster Valpak coupon.

Comment from Ned Berke | Sheepshead Bites
Time January 26, 2010 at 12:20 am

That’s good. Mine was thrown out.

Comment from Dan GerritsenBeach.net
Time January 26, 2010 at 5:56 pm

So, are we one big happy self congratulating family now? :)

I guess my invite was in that valpak!

Comment from Brian Hedden
Time January 26, 2010 at 10:27 pm

Dan, I believe the technical term is “circle jerk,” but your wording works OK, too. ;)

Comment from Dan GerritsenBeach.net
Time January 26, 2010 at 10:31 pm

I was going to say that! i was trying to keep it clean!