General @ 13 Feb 2007 02:21 am by Sebastian Geib
Citybloggers, sometimes also called Metbloggers, are a phenomenon and always ensure an interesting read. In simple terms, citybloggers write about their life in their home city.
These blogs give very valuable insights into people’s thoughts, ideas and daily concerns - and of course here and there funny stories and great pictures.
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General @ 30 Oct 2006 06:01 pm by Sebastian Geib
The growing number of cityblogs – by that I mean blogs, in which the authors briskly talk about life in their city – highlights both the importance and the influence of urban city life on people.
The idea is: a city as a so-called “anthroposphere”, a living space for humans. But what’s new about that? One new idea is that more and more townspeople take advantage of web2.0 and digitally interact with one another and exchange experiences dealing with their daily urban city life, their urban community, and their life in the “anthroposphere”. Here, the human is in the foreground – but still, the influences of urban designers resonate in each blog post.
After moving from Berlin to Hamburg, the blogger of “pop64” compares these two cities and provides deep and personal insights into the characteristics of each city: For more than two years, this blog gives a rich description of the challenges and the obtained cognitions resulting from the author’s move.
Already, blogs have become the urban instrument of social linking. Urban solitude? Such feeling doesn’t exist anymore. The best entry into the world of German citybloggers is offered by the site http://stadtblogs.de. Do you know other interesting blogs?
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