Now that I feel like chopped liver...

Reading through JFA? as I do daily, I came across this portion of a comment by "ablogbunny":

Yes, it's his blog (I think) and he can do as he pleases, and so can those who are looking for local news and information. This post is a prime example of the inane -- who gives a hoot about the subject (the photos are well-taken, but so what?).

That said, it is sad that this blog seems to be going the way that Delmarva Dealing (sic) went and Duvafiles is heading. Several months ago there were three significant local blogs, soon we may have none. (emphasis mine)

Unless someone upstairs has other plans, I'm not going anywhere. So does that make me insignificant? Please.

Obviously "ablogbunny" hasn't read here. Maybe I'm not so much into the local news, but I'll contribute where I see fit (certainly on the development issue.) I'll probably have much more of a local focus once we get past the 2006 election and 3 members of the so-called "Dream Team" begin their campaigns. Will we have a Crisfield-style "clean sweep"?

A blog is completely up to the writer, if they are like me they write about what is interesting to them. So I'm not all local politics, I delve into other issues and also like to have recurring features that no one else does (Shorebird of the Week, Ten Questions, Political Calendar, etc.)

The blogs were quite popular a couple months ago, things have tailed off as usual during the summer. Come Labor Day, we'll be back in the news as we all focus on the elections. (In monoblogue's case though, my hit rate has still slowly increased. This month I should have over 30,000 hits, although the system is skewed because I had one day when I was being hammered by comment spam, that probably added an extra 6,000 hits to a "normal" day.)

Speaking of other blogs, let me take this moment to welcome two more blogs to the Maryland Bloggers Alliance - Crablaw and Kevin Dayhoff's blog. We have now reached a membership of nine, although I'm still the only one on the Eastern Shore. Welcome aboard to you two!

Maybe they see me as more significant than "ablogbunny" does.