The great divide

In working on a double top secret project at the big-time media conglomerate super office, I was curious who's getting mentioned where and how often and stumbled upon a PBS blog entry mentioning MNSpeak and how despite its all-encompassing name, its zip code-based map tells a different story.

It's a boring topic to a lot of folks but the PBS link mentioned earlier discusses whether or not citizen journalism (blogs & other forms) are still mainly metropolitan based. I tend to think so. But maybe I'm wrong. Using the tag "mnvoices" on del.icio.us tells a different story.

So with an informal poll, I am curious where my readers come from. I know that most of the folks who comment here also blog in some way, shape or form but how close to a major metropolitan area do you live or work? The geeks at Google tell me that most of my traffic here is from Minnesota and more specifically the Twin Cities. Maybe they come for the in-depth conversations about pubic hair or swimming bunnies that may or may not lead me straight to hell but I tend to think it's for my stellar music feature on Fridays.

But the great divide isn't so great. I still have my phone and thanks to the folks at Samsung who created such an affordable (free) cell phone, I was able to determine that the farm economy is about to take a huge downward turn thanks to the global marketplace, petro-chemical prices (fertilizer, chemicals and fuel) and the fact that the farm economy directly reflects the general U.S. economy only delayed by a handful of months and amplified in extremity means that a general economy upswing is about a year away.

Confused yet? See, I've covered citizen journalism, name-checked PBS, Google & MNSpeak, done some self-promotion, covered the timely topic of the economy and asked questions. I await your feedback...