Gentriblogging or blogifying?

Outside In has a ranking of local-blogging activity, and my lovely neighborhood of Shaw comes in second. As Steven Berlin Johnson points out via Boing Boing, the list is made mostly of gentrifying areas.

What he doesn't mention is that, if the Shaw blogs are examplary of the rest, it's pretty much just the gentrifyers doing the blogging. I'd bet the anonymity of the blogosphere insulates these bloggers from the larger community discussion, allowing this minority to give voice to sentiments that might otherwise be shouted down as racist or unwelcome. Gentifying areas bring together lots of these interlopers, and at some point the critical mass makes for a viable blog community.

Or maybe they're just hipsters.

technorati tags:Shaw, Gentrification, Blogosphere