NPR: Boston Lays Claim to Title of Bloggiest City in America

Boston Lays Claim to Title of Bloggiest City in America

Beantown bloggers rule!

Or so says OutsideIn.com, a Web site that tracks neighborhood blogging in 3,345 neighborhoods in 54 cities across the U.S. In its most recent survey, which covered the months of March and April, Boston beat out Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., for top honors.

Why Beantown, you may ask? Think of all those colleges, jammed with students happily blogging away the hours instead of studying. All those tech people who work in or around the Hub. Boston.com reports that Outsidein.com Chief Executive Steven Berlin Johnson offered an additional theory: Blogs thrive where locals are wired, well-educated and obsessed with politics. (Boston? Obsessed with politics? Surely you jest.)

But as always with Boston, there's a New York factor involved. Brooklyn is actually the nation's bloggiest neighborhood -- if it was considered a city on its own, rather than just a borough, it might have come close to eclipsing Boston.

At least it's not the Bronx. Damn Yankees.

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