Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Community Content in Orange County

I know of three different sites serving the Orange County communities online with a variety of reporting.

Orange Chat is the blog collection by the writers of the Chapel Hill News. It's fairly traditional news and you can see from the comments how much reader interaction that's engendered.

But even at that, Orange Chat serves as a jumping off point for the more lively and older Orange Politics (know to insiders as OP). OP articles are posted by a small collection of editors and the OPers, the readers, are highly engaged in most subjects giving a lot of comment and discussion. Of particular interest from our readings is the Question of Trust thread in which a meta-commentary on anonymous postings has drawn over 50 comments so far.

Anonymous posters are more the norm at Squeeze the Pulp (aka STP) which uses more traditional forum software for their discussions. While there are not perhaps as many posters at STP as at OP, STP seems to have attracted a sort of opposition party tone (in opposition to OP management).

Know of others? Have a different take on any or all of the three?

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