tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post383591979351372159..comments2024-01-11T04:26:33.475-05:00Comments on Drifting Through The Grift: Blog Stories 2008: #5 - The Rise Of The Hyperlocalgriftdrifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509712527908530572noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post-74577814338000116442008-12-17T18:29:00.000-05:002008-12-17T18:29:00.000-05:00GoDeKalb.com wasn't generating any revenue, and Jo...GoDeKalb.com wasn't generating any revenue, and Jonathan Greenhill, who helped start the local blog craze here, has to pay the bills. He's now focusing on BroadcastAtlanta.com. Greenhill made GoDeKalb required reading by every elected official in DeKalb. He doesn't get the credit he deserves. Really hoping he can find a way to keep involved and still make a little dough.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if years and years from now, people like Greenhill, grift, Rusty, Doug Monroe, and all the others, will get prop's for all they've done here in metro ATL to make blogs an invaluable part of everyday life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post-89100563122456177372008-12-17T10:29:00.000-05:002008-12-17T10:29:00.000-05:00I agree that GoDeKalb used to be a great source fo...I agree that GoDeKalb used to be a great source for local news...but not anymore. I used to check in everyday. I never go over there now.<BR/><BR/>What happened? I know there was a brief attempt to move over to a more video-centric site, with efforts like "Decatur Now" and "Green Atlanta", but then it just kind of fizzled out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post-61022920908334629582008-12-17T10:06:00.000-05:002008-12-17T10:06:00.000-05:00Will the presidential election be number one?Will the presidential election be number one?Not anyonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069378954337960055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post-17380542359863595672008-12-17T08:40:00.000-05:002008-12-17T08:40:00.000-05:00You're right. Go Dekalb is a great site and I shou...You're right. Go Dekalb is a great site and I should visit it more often. Here's the problem. No feed. If a place doesn't provide RSS, I tend to not pay attention.<BR/><BR/>But I highly recommend everyone visit GoDekalb.<BR/><BR/>http://www.godekalb.com/griftdrifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509712527908530572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24847601.post-22893148744221387572008-12-17T00:55:00.000-05:002008-12-17T00:55:00.000-05:00#5 is a great post.To be fair, DeKalb County Schoo...#5 is a great post.<BR/><BR/>To be fair, DeKalb County School Watch, and to a lesser extent,<BR/>DeKalb Officers Speak and Heneghan's Dunwoody Blog, were offshoots of the "Comments" section for GoDeKalb.com. For a while, GoDeKalb was scooping the AJC on news story after news story. And the GDK "Comments" section was the single best place to rant, rave, scream about the shenanigans of a county gov't and school system, for a county with well over 700,000 residents, and the AJC was barely covering the county. The number of news stroies on GDK has dropped, but it really had a huge effect.<BR/><BR/>Pretty much every upper level county administrator, upper level school system administrator, and many state rep's and state senators was reading it daily. Heck, for a while, Jill Chambers and Mike Jacobs were posting themselves or replying to topics brought up in posts. Vernon Jones would address at commission meetings topics brought up on GDK.<BR/><BR/>It created an active, vibrant community, and even helped cement CEO elect Burrell Ellis' reputation as being outside the inner circle, over perceived insider Stan Watson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com