From Cleveland Scenes Best of 2007:

Best Blog (2007)

Brewed Fresh Daily

www.brewedfreshdaily.com

The great thing about blogs is that anyone can write one. What sucks about blogs is, well, anyone can write one, so getting to the good stuff means sifting through a lot of garbage. That’s why Brewed Fresh Daily is so useful. Instead of ruminating on his own big ideas or breaking down his morning breakfast, Brewed Fresh blogger George Nemeth rifles through Cleveland’s blogosphere so you don’t have to. Focusing on Cleveland-based news and opinion, Nemeth includes the best posts from Cleveland’s most consistent blogs, from Callahan’s Cleveland Diary to Political Science 216 to Writes Like She Talks. Nemeth also helps run the Meet the Blogger series, wherein bloggers sit down to BS with local politicians and other players.

Thomas bought our plane tickets to LV for the BlogWorld Expo today. Tons of speakers. Who would you go see?

Reminds me to mention that Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland.com, Eric Olsen of BlogCritics.org, and Jim Kukral of, well, a bunch of internet properties will all be there representing NEO. Anyone else planning on going?

Will You be at BlogWorld in Vegas Next Month? | Copyblogger

Bloggers who risked all to reveal the junta’s brutal crackdown in Burma

If you had a program that would shut down commenting after a certain number of days, would you use it? Why? How many days would you set it to if you did?

Would that Cleveland’s mayor did the same:

Mr. Skolnick identified changes instituted or proposed with the Human Relations Commission, the Park & Recreation Commission, and the Human Resources Department within the City of Youngstown. What Mr. Skolnick failed to communicate in detail, were the very serious problems surrounding each of the agencies that have existed for many years.

While I may only be completing my second year as the Mayor, I have worked in city government much longer. During that time I have clearly seen the severe problems that exist when boards, commissions, or agencies, are allowed to operate without appropriate oversight by the citizens and the officials that they elect. Often, the citizens have no idea of who the persons on those boards are, how they got there, or what their duties and responsibilities are.

Every reasonable citizen that I have spoken with about this issue agrees that no public body should operate with virtual impunity.

Mayor Jay Williams

Jill links to Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio and asks about the bloggers version, then suggests in a comment:

It would be fantastic:

Food
Places to go
Education
Politics
City Life
Community
City Government
Future Hopes
The Working Life
Entertainment
Sports (sorry - gotta have sports)
The Media
Diversity

There’s your table of contents, not in that order. Just take the BFD tags and see what entries and comments fall under each one. You have fantastic content and writers. And think about how many people will be nodding their heading knowing that they’ve thought all the same stuff, but have had no place to express or share it…

Well, should I?

Writes Like She Talks: In case you didn’t know

Link from a BFD reader:

BEIJING - New rules by a Chinese government-backed Internet group maintain strict controls over the country’s bloggers, requiring them to register with their real names and identification cards.
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The guidelines from the Internet Society of China, a group made up of China’s major Internet companies, contradict state media reports this week claiming that China was considering loosening registration requirements for bloggers to allow anonymous online journaling….

Chinese rules would keep blog registry - Yahoo! News