tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post116821473783041056..comments2023-08-18T04:37:47.001-04:00Comments on Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie: Blacklisted Bloggers! Film at 11!Kelly Sedingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168387674832073762007-01-09T19:07:00.000-05:002007-01-09T19:07:00.000-05:00Oh and you can all be sure that anytime we have ha...Oh and you can all be sure that anytime we have had a bloggercon, it involved BUFFALO as a whole. Never once has there been a WNYMEDIA con (although one of the rooms in my apartment on New Years Day turned out to be that way) then again, bloggers, I mean friends, were scattered all over!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168387439990833692007-01-09T19:03:00.000-05:002007-01-09T19:03:00.000-05:00I have always made sure we were one big family of ...I have always made sure we were one big family of BUFFALO BLOGS :) And lucky me, my article in Spree was before I moved over to WNYMEDIA. (I think it was the sex and the city single girl angle that none of you's were qualified for ;)And actually, the few times I had people contact me from the news, is from my own relationships as well, before blogging.<BR/><BR/>As for feeling *left out* all I can say is that the GIST of WNYMEDIA to me, like Geek said, is the News and Politics section, which I touch on here and there, but I am All Things and I am left out of this *mix* as well. In fact, while I link to all the WNY MEDIA sites on my blog, I am not linked on many of the others...linkage creates traffic too, and I think the big newsy blogs are the ones most people link to!!!<BR/><BR/>And as an aside: I can't tell you how many times I have sent over a piece of information to another MAJOR Buffalo Blog and not see one single mention on the site. This irks me so, I am a spread the word kind of blogger...<BR/><BR/>The end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168281382688767922007-01-08T13:36:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:36:00.000-05:00You guys could always join the network and get som...You guys could always join the network and get some of our media love. :-)<BR/><BR/>It boils down to Marc's relationships with local media outlets being what they are and the efforts of Alan and I to build friendships with establishment media types as well as the activist nature of our writers.<BR/><BR/>We link to all Buffalo blogs but, since our content is so heavy on the news and politics, the establishment guys tend to come to us for quotes and whatnot.<BR/><BR/>In the end, I will admit that we could do a better job of publicizing the other denizens of Buffalo Blogistan. However, I think we do a much better job than the other MAJOR blog in town at advertising the contributions of external writers. Hell, they don't even link to other blogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168229070212624632007-01-07T23:04:00.000-05:002007-01-07T23:04:00.000-05:00I get the same feeling sometimes about the WNYMedi...I get the same feeling sometimes about the WNYMedia.net blogs and other blogs, Jaquandor, but I wonder if I'm not being too sensitive. Maybe I'm not the only one.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy quite a few of the WNYMedia blogs, but I feel like yelling at times that "we're here, too." For those not too informed on Buffalo blogs, it is a convenient and informative one-stop site.Kevin J. Hoseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16237600081433004831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168220440920488142007-01-07T20:40:00.000-05:002007-01-07T20:40:00.000-05:00That's not what I was getting at, and I'm sorry I ...That's not what I was getting at, and I'm sorry I was unclear. Linkage from WNYMedia blogs seems to mostly direct to other WNYMedia blogs much of the time; the Buffalo News never seems to go any farther than the WNYMedia stable when looking for fodder for their blog column; that kind of thing.<BR/><BR/>Put it this way: I get the feeling (and it's mostly that, a feeling) that if I'd been posting the exact same content that I've posted in this space over the last year on a WNYMedia blog, this blog would have had a lot more attention from Buffalo. As it is, less than half of my traffic originates from WNY (once I factor out goofy stuff like search engine hits and the like).<BR/><BR/>And I concede in the main post that this is also in large part due to my content in the first place. Since my traffic has remained pretty much on a static plateau for over a year now, I suspect that my traffic is what it is.<BR/><BR/>(It still bugs me that when Spree Magazine did that big article about local blogs, mine didn't even make the <I>sidebar</I>, even though this is one of the oldest Buffalo-based blogs in existence. That has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but hey, as long as I'm bitching!)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, let me reiterate that my ruminations here are in no way instigated by anything YOU did or didn't do, Jen!Kelly Sedingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-1168217894183300872007-01-07T19:58:00.000-05:002007-01-07T19:58:00.000-05:00I never think of WNY MEDIA as the only Buffalo Blo...I never think of WNY MEDIA as the only Buffalo Bloggers, in fact I have a list of Buffalo Bloggers in my blogkines that I read much more regulary then some of my own "family" AND I ALWAYS make sure to include all the Buffalo Bloggers whenever I am planning some kind of a stint etc, never hass it been an exclusive WNY MEDIA thing, ever.All Things Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09356153780672927550noreply@blogger.com