When do bloggers blog? Do they do it in the middle of the night? The previous day? Do they sleep?  It’s just amazing: I wake up in the morning and there they are: Gowanus Lounge, Atlantic Yards Report, No Land Grab, Brooklyn Record, A Brooklyn Life, Sunset Parker

Reliable as rain.

Then there’s No Words_Daily Pix. Sometimes he doesn’t get his picture up until early afternoon. What’s up with that?

Truth is, NWDP puts a lot of thought and time into his choice of daily pix. It’s not like he’ll put just anything up. He likes to read the blog and respond to what’s in there. He likes to make connections. He’s a very, very thoughtful guy.  Some days he actually takes the picture like the picture yesterday of the fallen tree on Second Street. Some days I’ll say, hey can you run out and take a picture?

He’s very obliging. It’s fun to have a photographer around.

Some bloggers don’t blog on weekends, some do. I miss the one’s that don’t and appreciate the one’s that do.

I tend to write my blog around 10:00 p.m. after the kids go to sleep (Hah). I put posts up around 11 p.m. or so. And the next day I do more. All day. So it’s worthwhile to keep checking in.

People ask me all the time: how much time do you spend on your blog? It varies. If the muse strikes I do a lot of writing, which can take a few hours. If I am just linking and putting up excepts, it’ll take up considerably less time. Truly, it’s a labor of love and it doesn’t feel like any time at all.

Early September will the the two year anniversary of Third Street (Originally called OTBKB but changed when I went more public and moved over to Typepad). It was originally on Blogger; Smartmom began there. 

In February of 2005, I started this version of OTBKB. I originally envisioned it as a cross between the Village Voice and the SoHo Weekly News for Park Slope. It kind of morphed into its own thing. And now there are so many other Brooklyn blogs – we all have our special niches, our special areas of coverage, our unique tone and voice.

I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for two years. The time just flew. And yet so much has happened. There are so many Brooklyn blogs now – we’re a real community. Strength in numbers and all that: bloggers working day and night to keep this community informed and entertained.

It’s a pleasure.