The Sactosphere
I coined (I think) the term the Sactophere to describe the handful of bloggers who define their identity as bloggers in terms of their locality in Sacramento. I put The Bramble in that pot, though I only occasionally blog about this sweltering backwater I call home. Sacramento is too fucking boring to blog about full time. Just read The Sac Rag for a couple weeks, and you will see this substantiated in ways you never thought possible. True, heckasac makes it fun most of the time, but the truth is her returning site traffic are returning for her personality, not her subject. The two fundamental truths about Sacramento are: it holds on to the title of State Capital by sheer ineria, and everybody who lives here secretly wishes L.A. would just take the title away from us so that we can return to our edenic state as a moderately-sized truckstop along the I5. (At least, don’t accuse me of being a booster).
But the Sactophere doesn’t quite merit the term. Sacramento bloggers don’t link to one another enough. I’m not just complaining that my blog doesn’t get linked to enough, though I’m probably doing that, too. Linking is the way communities are established in the blogosphere. I’m not sure why we don’t link. Maybe we doubt the status of our fellow local bloggers as authorities.
In any case, I’m going to make a conscious effort to link to Sacramento bloggers daily. I’m starting by linking to this post on the blog Uneasy Rhetoric. UR doesn’t post very often, but he obviously put some thought and effort into a series of blurbs about the books that changed his life. Check it out.
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