“It really doesn’t matter what the Cafe is ranked because we are not in competion with other sites …”
Over the weeks since BlogNetNews started ranking blog sites in Connecticut, we have been surprised that the Cafe is even on their radar given that the Cafe is strictly a local blog site. BlogNetNews has identified 38 blog sites to monitor and, believe it or not, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, CT Local Politics has links to 97 CT blog sites on the front page of their website, and all CT newspapers have blog options associated with their articles. Many CT Towns have interactive websites as well. For the most part this plethora of blog sites has low visitation and minimal commentary. One of us clicked into the Woodstock coalition’s website (we call CPSAcademy) which resulted in a nasty email to his employer the following Monday complaining about this five second visitation (no way to make friends and influence people…beware).
The ‘#1′ blog site in CT is Connecticut Local Politics according to BlogNetNews. In our opinion CTLP is mostly a reguritation of statewide news with too many ‘cut-and-pastes’, hotlinks, and bells and whistles including pictures and U-tube hiests. Many of the comments are ‘tit-for-tat’ comments by bloggers from other blog sites in the list of 38 as though they are participating in a mutual admiration society. At the Cafe we have discussions between pure Woodstockers. You won’t see the Cafe selling teeshirts and coffee mugs. We think that the Cafe far exceeds CTLP in quality of thought but we appeal only to Woodstock and the surrounding towns (I wonder if “appeal” is the right word?). Read the rest of this entry »
