Does Your Neighborhood Have A Blog?

A new survey finds that neighborhoods experiencing gentrification have a high number of people blogging about their community.

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April 30, 2007, 11:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"First come the renovated condominiums, the latte bars and the expensive baby strollers. Next, apparently, come the bloggers.

One Web site's survey of the prevalence of blogs in urban neighborhoods found a link between gentrification and the number of people who feel compelled to think out loud about the changes in their backyards. The site, Outside.in, crowned Clinton Hill in Brooklyn as the most blogged-about neighborhood in America.

Also on the top 10 list were Harlem; Shaw in Washington; downtown Los Angeles; Newton, Mass.; and Rogers Park/North Howard in Chicago.

Before the survey, the staff of Outside.in was "not conscious that local blogging would be so closely allied with gentrification," said Steven Berlin Johnson, a founder of the site. Change, he said, "makes people particularly interested in every little development in their neighborhoods.""

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Monday, April 30, 2007 in The New York Times

Community / Economic Development Social / Demographics United States

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