Chron adds local music blog
The Chronicle is adding blogs at a fast and furious pace. The newest one, HandStamp, will focus on the local music scene:
Welcome to HandStamp, a new blog dedicated to Houston's local music scene. Writers Sara Cress and Joey Guerra, whose bylines you'll recognize from our local bands page, will use this space to report on the local music scene. Enjoy, and be sure to use the comments area to agree, disagree or just offer random thoughts. They like those.
Okay all you music aficionados, bookmark it and comment away!
KEVIN WHITED (BELATEDLY) ADDS: This is potentially the best blog Chron.com (which I now think of as a slightly different entity from the newspaper proper) has added yet. No offense to the other bloggers and their subjects, but the local music scene was REALLY underrepresented in local blogging. So far as I know, Houston Calling was the only blog devoted to it previously (and those two blogs should really share links and content a bit more, because part of what makes a good blog is the sharing of information and links).
Chron.com's investment in a local music blog leverages talent that is already working that subject for the newspaper AND provides Chron.com content that won't fit in the print version. Houston music fans and Chron.com benefit.
It's amusing that Chron.com has beaten the allegedly "alternative" Houston Press to an online music blog. The Press just looks more tired every day.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 05/26/05 08:41 PM | Houston Arts/Culture | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (7)
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I see that Chron.com added another blog while I was away. HandStamp is a blog devoted to the local music scene. I belatedly added some thoughts to Anne's earlier post on it here. Chron.com...
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