Every once in a while, we update our blogroll, mainly to showcase other Progressive blogs in New York State. Here's a request: if we've overlooked your blog, please, by all means, let us know. Odds are, we're not ignoring you because we're bad people who think you don't matter, but because we've simply either not noticed or not gotten around to adding you. Please email editors – at – dailygotham – dot – com when you have a free moment. Needless to say, we exercise some discretion; "Hot Grandma's Golden Shower Blog", "The Bolshevik Cannibals' Club" or similar probably aren't gonna make it.

Anyway, here are the newest additions:

Progressive blogs

Blue Spot
DragonFlyEye
NY 13
Simply Left Behind

Ben Smith's newest

The Politico

That's, if I count correctly, Ben's fourth new blog in a bit over a year. Jeezuz.

[Update] : Heh. Today is the day, as The Albany Project points out, that everyone is doing this blogroll-updating thing. I blame Kos and his secret mind-control rays. More blogs after the jump.

So here's a few more new blog links, with a tip and a nod to Lipris (who is not, however, thereby excused from finally writing me the diary he owes me as of right).

Nassau GOP Watch
Peter King Watch
Troy Polloi (check it out, it's too funny; their tagline is "The City of Troy - where Henry Hudson turned around")

And from the Canadian frontier, courtesy of Ted and Ezra Ford, their blog, Danger Democrat.

Here's why this is so important: in this state, blogging is largely dominated by established media at the local level, a subject on which I've had a number of rather terse exchanges with representatives of the same. You'll notice that if you go to the web sites of the newspaper blogs; more often than not, with the notable exception of The Empire Zone, the conversation there is with other newspaper blogs. What follows from that is that all of the weaknesses of the carbon media are replicated here in the tubes; the process gossip, the horseracery, the he-said-she-said that passes for political neutrality these days, the stultifying conventional wisdom endlessly chewed over day after day. That's not uniform, mind you, but it's there often enough to be noticeable, and I submit to our colleagues on the carbon side that this kind of coverage is one reason why the public views you as it does. Congratulations, now you're exporting your winning formula to the blogs.

Thing is, if you believe in this newfangled citizen-media and Crashing the Gate stuff (and I do), those citizen media need to work to change that. One way of doing that is by working together. There are more good things, such as finally starting the upstate-downstate conversation that all of us urgently need to have, but that's enough for starters.