The trends in blogging may be running differently in other places, but in Richmond two new directions can easily be noticed — community blogging and food/drink-based blogs.
The Fan District Hub has recently become a part of the community blogs wave, which now includes five community blogs in the Richmond metro area. The other four being: Church Hill People’s News; Hills and Heights; Petersburg People’s News; West of the Boulevard News. Soon there will be others.
Sooner than later, the rather interesting potential of what a cooperating network of affiliated — yet not jointly published — community blogs might mean to a metro area could be demonstrated for all to see, right here in Richmond, Virginia.
Two local men should be cited and congratulated for putting this civic-minded new trend in motion. They are John Murden, editor of CHPN, and Ross Catrow, editor of WotBN. They have not only started their own community blogs, this pair of Johnny Appleseeds of community blogging has also done much of what it took to launch the other three such blogs.
The second trend to notice is focused on food and drink, featuring restaurant reviews and wine talk. How do we know this?
Because of RVABlogs (also run by Catrow), which has no less than 176 bogs of every stripe on its list of local blogs. What is RVABlogs?
It is an aggregator site that grabs posts from those 176, then puts the titles of their posts and their opening lines on its front page. At this writing it appears there are five six food and drink blogs at RVABlogs.
They are:
Send us a note if your worthy food and drink blog was left out of this post and we’ll update it accordingly (In this case, it should be a blog that is devoted to the topic.)
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