Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

You all know Robert from I-4 Jamming, right? Well, add another blogger to your Polk County blogroll – Empirical Polk County (nice play on words there).

Here’s an interesting note: The Lakeland Ledger now lists all of their local bloggers on their Polk News Watch page. In fact, the Polk News Watch is a blog, detailing “news about Polk County from out-of-town publications.” In addition to the above mentioned Polk bloggers, the sidebars include archives and links to most, if not all statewide daily newspapers. Their main posts are sometimes a little goofy, include UPDATES! and allow for permanent linking. It looks as if they have been doing it for about a year now. It’s a very good job at blogging by a traditional newspaper. It could be a sign that blogs are being taken somewhat seriously.

On the other hand, the other local dailies are not even close. The St. Pete Times tried a Tech Times Blog, but it is now defunct. The Tampa Tribune’s online arm, TBO has a weblog section, but each blog is updated infrequently, links are few and far between, and taken collectively or individually, it is a half-ass approach to the genre.

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