I Confess: I'm Envious of Nashville's Blogging Scene

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July 07, 2006

I Confess: I'm Envious of Nashville's Blogging Scene

And, for that matter, I'm jealous of Knoxville's. But Nashville, with its groundbreaking TV station WKRN, is quite the place for bloggers.

We Chatty types had a small get-together last year at Greyfriar's, but there were no adult beverages, no video bloggers, and no hosting television stations that were also offering to pay us for video content. Perhaps saddest of all, we had no Rex L. Camino.

NewsChannel9 and Channel 3 Eyewitness News, are you paying attention? Surely you want to get in on this game. (I won't hold my breath for Channel 12, and isn't the Fox affiliate's news outsourced to NewsChannel9?) What about the Times Free Press? (Never mind: just ask the reporters who do their best at using the "blogging" system set up for them.)

I am going to start asking some specific questions to some specific people, and thus try to boost the Scenic City's resonance in the blogosphere. I can't be thankful enough that Chattablogs was created (although seemingly as an alumni extension service for Covenant grads), and shouts also go out to Mike, who was blogging when we didn't know what it was, as well as smijer, and Joshua Blankenship (and others, forgive me); but it's possible that a full-time Chattanooga-based blog, à la NiT or VV (and I hereby offer my services, in exchange for just compensation), would create the hub needed to give us a more cohesive sense of cyber-community.

That said, I am* one of those who rails against the perpetual isolation and lack of community created by television and, to some degree, the internet (free WiFi mitigates, dontcha think?), so if we are to have a more robust blogging scene, it will require face-to-face time.

I could just stomp my feet and move to Nashville, and try to fit in with the cool kids there, but I think it much more worthwhile to actually do something here, even if it could be seen as just a copycat move.

*This is in direct contrast to my personal quest for frequent and utter solitude, but I do think all y'all should get together more; and I'll just sit quietly in the corner, per my M.O.

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