So Blog About It.

Everyone. Everyone whos part of generation Z and has access to the internet has a blog. Theyre everywhere. Mostly of no consequence, most of them could be considered no more than public diaries for whoever is bored enough to stumble by them. San Diego has its fair share of these. So we dove in and had a look to see whats what, whose writing about what, where, when and should you actually care. Now first we should set out some ground rules as to what actually is considered a blog. Well first it has to be in some form of WordPress format going through such providers as wordpress.org, or blogger.com. For exampleus truly, we are not a blog. We are an actual built website. Aside from that we could really care less. So lets begin, shall we?

The first one that stands out for us has to be the most basic, simple and yet effective blog site out there for the San Diego area. And, to some respects, our main competition. San Diego Dialed In, http://www.sddaledin.com. Founded a couple years ago by local indie scene guru Rosemary, SD Dialed In is actually one of the best sources to find out whats what in the scene. Although youll notice a long list of contributing writers on the right side of the page youll come to notice that along the read that Rosemary is really the only one that posts content. More power to her, the girl has such a low key reputation but can just about go anywhere she wants too. Constantly updating the events calendar, there really isnt much this blog cant provide you if youre looking for where to go on any particular day. If its worthy shell note it. Kudos to SD Dialed In. But you know, keep on tabs with us as well.

Next on the list came to our attention about a month and a half ago or so, give or take a week. Its brand spanking and for better or worse is starting to rock the boat and make the ripples into waves. SD Gossip Scene, http://www.sdgossipscene.com. Ran by a short, dark haired girl, who out of some wayward professional courtesy asked of by our producer and editor, shall be left anonymous. Although we dont know why cause although her plan to keep low key in the scene to us is failing miserably. Maybe she shouldnt pass business cards out, despite they are nameless, and youre passing them out. Aside the point though, you all know her and probably just dont realize who she is. But youll notice that over the past year the San Diego hipster/scenester/indie/electo/dance/cracked out/drunk/ 21-23yro scene has been getting more and more highschool-ish. And this gossip blogger loves to add fuel to the fire. Reporting on just about everything scene, heard, or otherwise rumored about, snapping photos and drawing like a 5 year old on them. The sad part is that people, for better or worse, look at this and then go all OMG, WTF. Its amazing how easily peoples buttons can get pushed in this town. But in some instances, making a break up public, putting people on something of a spotlight just isnt cool. There are scene reports and local event promotions on the site as well, but that doesnt really do justice. We predict that its only time until the mystery girl is made very public and either crucified or accepted in some sadistic way. San Diego has never been a gossip town; the major tabloids even stay out of town. And no offense to anyone out there but reallydo you even think your worth blogging about? But we wish her good luck, and god help her if and when the kettle boils over.

A little known blog, but in actuality a very intuitive blog to us, would be Mintphonic, http://mintphonic.blogspot.com. What is it you ask? Well its a scene specific blog reporting on local and global happenings in the electro scene. Promoting local events and reporting notable DJ acts coming and going through town as well as industry news on that scene. Its not too shabby. Brought to you by local DJ Joseph Maldonado, aka DJ Headshake has also created Ping Pow Zing, a promotional gig for DJ events and producers of Kitchen Time with the #1 Julius, which in itself is an interesting phenomena. Funny to watch most the time, mainly promoting what is coming up event wise and the love of Julius and cooking with beer.

A similar blog, pretty much with the same goals and aims, would be Colour Vision, http://www.colourvisionmusic.com. Created by fellow DJ Corey Hurley, Colour Vision seems to be more of a reposting of events to come and reports been made in the electro scene; Vice its sister blog, Minphonic, which seems to provide us with more of an insight of whats going on with all that noise.

There are others, some such as Insomniac-Rant, http://bre-nice.blogspot.com, maintained by local scene girl Berenice Diaz, is pretty much a public diary for all those who care to see what shes up to and where shes been and is going. Its amusing at times since she is an amusing character herself. Other blogs such as Boots Baby!, http://bootsbaby.blogspot.com, maintained by once local scene girl (gone to college but drives 4-6hrs on the long weekends back home) Brittney Boots Bowels, focuses on more of the fashion and culture phenomena . Oh yeah, did we also mention that she too.is a DJ Brazzabelle. Go figure. Following her, would be EcologiqueSD, http://ecologiquesd.blogspot.com. Created by Andrea Krystine, Ecolgique is her brainchild and baby from start to finish. After putting on a highly successful fashion show exposing designers who are totally green, using reused materials and so forth to create their designs. Saving the world one designer line at a time, we applaud.

Overall though the point isif you wanna get something off your chest, make some waves, wear your heart on the internet or actually report on some legitimate stuffor maybe just to be cool as the reststart a blog.

Review by: The Scensters