I’m putting together a list of Winston-Salem bloggers.  I’ve spent a couple of hours searching various local blogrolls, regional blog indexes, Google, you name it.  I now have a whopping list of four and they are all personal-ish blogs.  (I do like them and have posted them on the left column.)

Unfortunately I can’t find a single Winston-Salem public figure with a blog.  Where are the journalists, politicians or gadflies?  Our friends to the east in Greensboro are chock-full of public figure bloggers.  Here’s a few just off the top of my head:

John Robinson (Editor, News & Record)
Tom Phillips (Greensboro City Councilman)
Ed Cone (Columnist for the News & Record)
David Hoggard  (I think he falls into all three of the aforementioned categories)

Greensboro also has an experimental blog-aggregator-cum-alternative-daily-news-source, Greensboro101, that is positioning itself as a kind of Peoples Choice for local news.

All of which leads me to two questions:

1. Are there any Winston-Salem public figures with a blog? (Actually can anyone point me to any good Winston-Salem blogs?)

2. Did all of Greensboro’s public figures come to blogs because there was already a vibrant blogging community in place, or were they a catalyst for the development of Greensboro’s blogging community?  I know it’s kind of a chicken-egg question, but I’m curious.

***Update***
After another Feedster search I’ve found quite a few personal blogs, mostly by students at Wake Forest.  Not adding them to the list and have now determined that I’m going to have to come up with a totally arbitrary vetting process for the list.  Still no public figures.