So, is there a definitive source for links to blogs written in and/or about Lancaster?

I have a couple bookmarked. Ron Harper’s 5thestate.com, for example, though I’d say - and Harper will probably argue this - that his site isn’t a blog per se, it’s more a news site. I like LancoYokels, it’s pretty well-written and well-reasoned, as is Artie See’s Looking at Lancaster. NewsLanc is also more of a news site, fairly well done, I think - and I like the surbversive nature of how NewsLanc hands out paper versions outside of Market periodically, and takes out full-page ads in the Merchandiser.

I suppose I’m not supposed to express approval of such things, given that the target of all these blogs is usually my employer, the people running this show. But it’s curious, in a way, that the convention center deal seems to have inspired a lot of local blogging - just as the war in Iraq on the national level itself has inspired a lot of blogging. Blogging, at a very basic level, is reacting - reacting to events and issues, sometimes the only means of expressing yourself when you feel like you’re not being listened to by the powers that be. That is, in fact, one of the things I’ve always liked best about blogging - it is or can be an end run around the “normal” rules of debate, a way for people who otherwise might not have a voice to find one. The democratization of discourse, and it’s a good thing.

So I’d like to blogroll local blogs, and if you’ve got one, drop me a note. I don’t know that the list can be anything definitive, but the more the merrier.