Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Amy Gahran My Moleskine reporter's notebook: I don't leave home without it.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool online geek, but I must admit I've had a longstanding love affair with one particular brand of dead-tree media: my ever-present Moleskine reporter's notebook. While it's not very searchable, it's extremely portable, never needs charging, doesn't break when dropped, and it has excellent handwriting recognition.

So I was happy today to learn that Moleskine offers a network of city blogs focused on cities from around the world: London, Milan, Rome, New York and Paris. I like city blogs, which tend to mix local commentary and opinion with reviews and citizen journalism.

According to Robert Andrews, the MoleskineCity blog network is intended to promote and accompany an upcoming line of city-focused Moleskine notebooks containing local information, maps and more for several major cities.

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The content isn't bad -- but as an avid Moleskine user, I'd love it if these blogs featured more pictures of people using their Moleskines in those settings. We Moleskine geeks actually are a fairly strong community, so that kind of content would work well here, I think.

So check out the photo above -- I'm visiting Miami, Fla. at the moment. Moleskine, feel free to use my contribution.

Do you read or contribute to city blogs? Does your news organization host any? What do you think of these efforts, and how can they complement traditional journalism? Please comment below.

Personally, I think it might be fun to see a city blog hosted by a newspaper about people's experiences with reading the paper -- trying to fold it on a crowded subway, article recently clipped and mailed to an out-of-state friend, finding your paper shredded by your neighbor's dog, coffee shop chatter over a page 1 feature, etc. It may or may not take off, but it would be fun to try, even for a limited time.

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