That’s right. Reporter Greg Beyer is under fire over at Atlantic Yards Report for leaving out Atlantic Yards Report and No Land Grab.  in his article Cracker-Barrel 2.0 in the City section of the New York Times.

Yes, that is a serious omission when it comes to an article about the Brooklyn blogging scene. I mean COME ON: Norman Oder and Lumi Rolley are Blogging luminaries.

But I agree with Norman Oder who writes:

Some who attended the Second Annual Brooklyn Blogfest in May complained that there was too much emphasis on Atlantic Yards, given that two of the six featured bloggers (Lumi Rolley of No Land Grab and I) focused on Brooklyn’s most controversial project. It’s
not an illegitimate criticism; it depends whether you believe such an
event should encompass all who come–as did the debut event in 2006–or
some of the most prominent. (Next year, I’m sure I’ll sit it out.)

Reading Beyer’s article, I had the sense that he was correcting for that slant at the Brooklyn Blogfest and highlighting some of the blogs that are not single issue. His focus was something Beyer calls "place blogs."

I spent a couple of hours with Greg back in May soon after the Blogfest talking about my blog and my perspective on things. I think I may have emphasized my own appreciation of the idiosyncratic and eccentric side of blogging.

Hey, that was the morning I saw the Nashville Warbler. I was in a micro frame of mind. 

Needless to say, I am thrilled with the article and think it’s beautifully written. That said, one article in the Times’ can’t cover all the ins and outs of Brooklyn blogging. It seems to me that Brooklyn blogging is getting top big to be generalized about.

There are place blogs, personal blogs, real estate blogs, development blogs, artsy blogs, photo blogs, political blogs, etc.

We are a growing blogdom and we don’t need to fight over who gets space in a New York Times article.

We’re too big and varied for that