NYT's Look at Blog Commenters
This weekend, the City section of the Sunday Times took a front-page look at the nature of the commenting culture on local blogs (in addition to a focus on Brownstoner, Curbed, Gowanus Lounge, GerritsenBeach.net, and Roosevelt Island 360 all got ink), something New York City has in greater numbers than other cities. While it didn’t…
This weekend, the City section of the Sunday Times took a front-page look at the nature of the commenting culture on local blogs (in addition to a focus on Brownstoner, Curbed, Gowanus Lounge, GerritsenBeach.net, and Roosevelt Island 360 all got ink), something New York City has in greater numbers than other cities. While it didn’t seem like a particularly new issue to us, hopefully it spread the gospel to the uninitiated. “For the past few years, blog comments sections, acting as virtual town squares, have offered residents around the country a forum in which to weigh in — and vent — on a wide spectrum of local issues,” went the article. “But given New York’s size and diversity, not to mention its fabled brashness, political energy and high emotion, its blogosphere is taking a particularly striking shape.” Yours truly was quoted about the no-brainer decision of allowing comments from the get-go of the blog, despite the fact that some of the established blogs at the time blocked comments. The piece wraps with a description of the Brownstoner End of the World party that took place last October and readers’ reaction online:
The next day, online, the partygoers spoke enthusiastically about the experience. Some noted that their virtual friends didn’t look like what they had expected. A poster named Slopefarm was shocked to discover that Montrose Morris was a woman. Ms. Morris got her own surprise, as she commented, tongue firmly in cheek: Slopefarm, good to meet you, too. I’m disappointed you didn’t have a stalk of organic, heritage, artisanal hay harvested by Bhutanese nuns between your teeth. You are in Park Slope, after all.
It’ll be interesting to see how much traffic the article generates—we’ll be able to report back in a few hours. Update: Traffic yesterday was about double the average for Sunday, but still not close to a normal weekday.
You Talkin’ to Me? [Brownstoner]
Someone’s been binge drinking already.
Biff, don’t use me as your / Miss Chiff’s fall guy (gal).
“benson, if you go back to 11233’s posts you’ll see that he never had a rapport with BRG”
Biff, you are so clueless!!! You sure don’t know how to play the game. You will lose, I will conquer you!
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BRG: Off to Dyker Heights this weekend to see the Christmas lights and hang at the Bridgeview Diner. I will be thinking of you while I eat my dinner.
Posted by: 11233 at December 16, 2008 2:59 PM in response to Open Thread
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Glad they opened the toilet when they took that bathroom picture sideways.
This house is in Bushwick, not BS.
I await BRG’s and THL’s decision on the kitchen. BRG/THL, please opine.
Dave: That building on Halsey and Marcus Garvey is nice and should be a model for other developments.
Posted by: 11233 at December 12, 2008 11:25 AM in response to Horror Show Friday
11233 wrote a review about Coco Roco on December 10, 2008 12:40 PM
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“a lawsuit, church, sex toy, and a girl”
– BRG
Sounds like the plot to the new movie (and B’way play) “Doubt”
I thnk you have a hit on your hands BRG.
Posted by: 11233 at December 5, 2008 1:30 PM in response to Friday Links
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BRG: I only jest. And you are not an appliance snob by any stretch. I have always kept the possibility of resale on my mind when I have made any changes to my house. That said, I make the changes I want and live with the potential re-sale issue later. Since I have never ever had to buy an appliance before in my life, I feel really odd about the task of shopping for one. I would rely on my parents, but they never bought an applicance either. (Perhaps it is a genetic aversion to stoves?!) So I default to the people I know who have ever made their opinion known. I have gotten some feedback from various people and, of course, think about what would make me happy. Given that I only have leftovers and alcohol in my fridge and I nuke or reheat everything I eat, my needs are few. Your thoughts stick in my mind. Not in a bad way. They are just there. THL and others have commented about appliances, but your comments were the first for me and I remember them more strongly.
Wait, did I just go off topic and talk about a house?! This thread is about socializing. How dare I?!
Second thought: If this thread is about being social, shouldn’t the what be banned from posting?
Posted by: 11233 at October 17, 2008 4:56 PM in response to Here’s To Our Future
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wasder: I promise to talk to you next meet up.
OK, I have to admit that I did talk about someone here last night ……
Bayridgegirl!
Yes. I am starting to look for kitchen appliances and I have BRG in my head as I snoop around. It drives me crazy! I vented to Pete. (No harm done, BRG, I just think about you all the time.)
Posted by: 11233 at October 17, 2008 3:07 PM in response to Here’s To Our Future
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Thanks, fjorder and bayridgegirl. I thought I had heard the same about Viking and Sub-Zero, fjorder.
BRG: I will gladly share my heinous kitchen pictures with you if I can find them. This kitchen was so bloody ugly and useless, I tore it out. I still have one on the parlor floor, but that will be gone the second the other kitchen gets redone.
Sorry for changing the subject here.
Posted by: 11233 at September 24, 2008 3:03 PM in response to House of the Day: 169 Clinton Street
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Thanks, BRG. I am only half joking. I am planning to redo my kitchen and it is interesting to read what someone who is looking for a home is looking for in a kitchen. Ultimately, I will make the decision that fits my budget and taste but I always have an ear out to hear what others are thinking. Thanks.
Posted by: 11233 at September 24, 2008 2:09 PM in response to House of the Day: 169 Clinton Street
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bayridgegirl: Can you please opine on the appliances.
Posted by: 11233 at September 24, 2008 1:45 PM in response to House of the Day: 169 Clinton Street
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I think bayridgegirl has been talking down the Bed-Stuy condos because they have GE appliances.
Posted by: 11233 at September 23, 2008 12:08 PM in response to Prices Falling in Greenwood Heights and Bed Stuy
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Now, Biff, don’t you have a bathroom to go to. Don’t hurt yourself! And not too fast, your brain might ooze out!!!
This quote from the article struck me as one of the most relevant: “Like Mr. Johnson, bloggers are expanding the idea of what constitutes a neighborhood: it’s not just a place, but also a constellation of views and opinions.” As a reader of Brownstoner from day one and an occassional poster, I believe one of greateast challenges of this website (from a business viability perspective) is how will Mr. Butler manage to keep the constellation of views and opinions from being reduced further than it has over the past 18 months. Inclusiveness is evolving into exclusiveness.
Wow, once again BRG and Miss Chiff both show up at the same time in the same thread and once again talk about me…how coincidental! benson, if you go back to 11233’s posts you’ll see that he never had a rapport with BRG (much like everyone else) or posted like BRG/Miss Chiff does. In fact, 11233, as DIBS pointed out, admitted he doesn’t like women. BRG/Miss Chiff doth protest too much…
NO, please. The number of grammatical and spelling errors would keep Biff posting here for hours.
No please, please, Not a really long post, I beg you.
“….and you aren’t fully”
Yes, I’m not fully amused by YOU, Biff!!!!
I haven’t signed up for the login name Miss Spell…would you like it.
Yes Sam…I did say that someone can sign in and out in one minute.
If you go through that thread, there was a post from some ‘asshat’, ie Biff, and then a minute later Miss Chiff posted. I was insinuating that I believe it’s Biff.
I threw out so many clues in friday’s thread hinting that it’s Biff, who by the way, still won’t believe that 11233 admitted to it…hhhhmmmm.
Benson: 11233 = Miss Chiff.
Biff, eternally obsessed with BRG, cannot let go of the idea that BRG was talking dirty to herself and calling herself mistress. This will all end when Biff goes to release the tension created by the images in his head.
sam is an instigator.
I missed that post by the What.
Do we need to get Mr. B involved?