HEY, I'M AN URBLOG: I know about Otis White's Civic Strategies site mainly because BFD keeps bringing it up. This morning, however, having finally gotten my blogroll to function, I went googling for any links to Cleveland Diary that I should reciprocate. And up pops this on Mr. White's site...

Urban blogs are those that are focused on a metro area, provide interesting commentary about local politics, culture or urban life and aren't so ideological that they're painful to read. So how much ideology is too much? Hey, it's our list, so we get to decide...

Here's our list of urblogs worth spending time with:

Bill Callahan's blog is a jewel. He writes frequently and well, not only about Cleveland politics but economics. And he does so with an independent point of view. You can find Callahan's blog at... [you're already here].

Well. I guess George is right -- Otis is the man. How often do you get not just a nice review, but number one billing in a whole new cultural category? (Okay, "urblog" is more of a sub-sub-sub-sub-category, but even so...)

Hey Mom, I'm an urblog!

The other links on the page, from various cities, are interesting and nice company to be seen in. And note that White's looking for nominations for more urblogs to list.

Go ahead, feel free, I don't mind. My place in urblog history is secure.