Not to toot our own horns, but LAist is now the most popular group blog in Los Angeles. By a longshot! We can't thank our readers enough- and we can't wait to show you all the new features and writers we'll be introducing over the next couple of months. Come on back, y'all! (The traffic data from our friends at Blogging.la is courtesy of their Sitemeter)

the blogging.la idea is not that strong- it's just a bunch of people who live in LA blogging as they would normally do on their own site. there's no central voice, no recurring features, no interest in really building up anything. i think you could create a better blogging.la pretty easily- just pick the ten best individual LA blogs, pull their RSS, and aggregate them. Voila- you'd have something a lot better than blogging.la, and you wouldn't even have to coordinate anyone.

Mack, Jonah, and other blogging.la writers-

here's the post in question:

http://www.laist.com/archives/2004/10/08/note_from_the_publisher.php

First of all, I honestly don't give a rats ass what Jake Dobkin thinks of me, or my sites, or our plans, or our goals. He's just trying to make himself feel better by knocking someone else down and I think that's pretty obvious to everyone. He's constantly pointing at us sneering "look, they aren't doing XXX right" but we're not trying to do XXX so who fuckin g cares. He's obviously very concerned with us, and really bothered that we aren't with him.

This stat thing is retarded. Everyone knows that all stats counters record things differently, so pitting a public site meter stat against his internal tracking software is like saying "checking out how much better my fresh orange juice is than his stale beer." We have several stats programs running on the site and all give different numbers. He's tried this before and he'll try it again. If his stupid little games make him feel better then more power too him but this is way too petty for me to bother dealing with, or responding to.

And that is on the record.

Thanks for asking.
-sean