Blue Hampshire a Charter Member in BlogPac's 50-State Project

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 18:48:52 PM EST
I'm proud to announce that we have been chosen to receive a grant to help cover the fees associated with hosting and running this site.  The grant comes from BlogPac, a great organization which is working hard to help support and create an effective infrastructure for local blogs around the country.  As Laura Packard says:

BlogPac is working on a project to bring community blogging to every state. Community blogs (and the communities they create) will make the difference in '08. But they can also make a difference now, influencing policy on a state and local level.

Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller at MyDD along with Laura Packard have been instrumental in building and promoting this project.  I'll let Bowers do the talking from here:

Over the past three weeks, we have told you that BlogPac is working on a project to bring community blogging to every state in the country (see here, here and here). Specifically, one of the things that meant was paying for the website hosting costs of 50 local, community blogs, which would help alleviate the burden on some of most our essential, local, progressive activists. Today, I am happy to announce that you have put together the resources to make it happen, and we can announce the first group of bloggers who about to receive your support:

  • California: Calitics
  • Colorado: Square State
  • Massachusetts: Blue Mass Group
  • Michigan: Michigan  Liberal
  • Minnesota: Minnesota Campaign Report
  • Montana: Left In the West
  • New Hampshire: Blue Hampshire
  • New Jersey: Blue Jersey
  • New York: The Albany Project
  • North Carolina: Blue NC
  • Texas: Burnt Orange Report
  • Virginia: Raising Kaine

    That is a pretty impressive list of some of the best local blogs in the country. They all are a vital part of the emerging progressive media landscape, and help to build local activist scenes. Thanks to you, all of them will now find it a little easier to keep operating in the future. You can see the criteria for the blogs we are giving grants to at the BlogPac website, and we are going to keep going until we have funded at least one blog in every state.

This grant wouldn't have been possible without generous contributions made via ActBlue, so I thank everyone who has contributed to BlogPac through it, and urge all of you to consider giving to the worthy cause of creating a 50-state progressive community blog system.  And a huge thank you to everyone who comes here and makes this place the strong, vibrant, community it is.  We've been live for less than two and a half months, and as of typing this we've amassed 324 diaries, 3,316 comments, and over 20,000 site visits.  I'm speechless.
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