1. Let's see, 50 states, how many territories? Yeah, this could be the start of something very big ;)
Is there something particularly bloggable about Ohio, or is this just a push to move blogging into "middle America?"

Posted at 5:48PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Victor Agreda, Jr.

2. Why did you decide to start with Ohio? Is this decision mostly based on the availability of a particularly good writer, which in this case happened to be located in Ohio?
Or is something else weighing in?

I'd really like to know. Thanks.

Posted at 5:59PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Michael Nevins

3. As cool as it is that you chosen my home state I have to ask, are these people even from Ohio? The Akron stuff is pretty far off, though I don't mind the attention it brings to the city. Of course, it does get a reaction, which is what I look for from my bloggers.

Posted at 6:06PM on Apr 17th 2006 by J.D. Amer

4. This could tie in very well with Digitalcity & Mapquest

Posted at 6:42PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Adam

5. Starting with Ohio... genius.

Why? 'Cause everybody says, "Why Ohio... boy I can't wait 'til they get to *my* state!"

If WIN had started with New York or Cali, everyone would start the whole, "Here we go again. Start on the East/West Coast and work toward the middle."

NOW we have NO IDEA what will be next. It could be Alabama/Mississippi for all we know (please,please,please!)

Good work WIN.

Posted at 7:07PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Landon Howell

6. My question is the following: was there some reasoning behind doing a statewide versus a truly local thing? 2nd what about BIG states like texas, no way one blog can cover everything. So will there be subdomains? i.e. Cleveland.bloggingohio.com ?
i think this idea is good, especially with a powerful array of tools in the warchest at AOL. best of luck w/it, local ad $ are going to be huge for this.

Posted at 7:10PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Brian Breslin

7. Fantastic idea! The company I work for did the state-centric thing too and built a network of sites for entrepreneurs and angel investors (FundingUtah.com, FundingNewYork.com, etc.) It has been extremely successful. As if you needed me to validate your model ... :)

If you need any help when you get to Utah, let me know. There's a huge blogging community here.

Posted at 7:30PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Jeff Jordan

8. Welcome to the party! Looking forward to cool stuff we can do when we launch Metroblogging Cleveland.

The full state coverage is an interesting approach for sure however I think you missed a huge cross promo opportunity by launching Ohio like this, you could have paired up HackaDay with it and done a How-to build your own methlab which would have been much more expolsive.

Posted at 8:00PM on Apr 17th 2006 by sean bonner

9. Oooh, this is a good idea. :)

Posted at 9:58PM on Apr 17th 2006 by Mark Jeffrey

10. Well, let's see ... Crains Business selected the following areas to produce business newspapers: Chicago/Illinois, Cleveland/Ohio and Detroit/Michigan.

I'm guessing that Blogging Ohio will be more of a Statewide Travel/Recreational/Tourism Guide to tie in with your upcoming automobile classifieds on Autoblog (hint, hint). Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania are probably idea for automobile related classifieds because ( a ) everybody working in those states probably drive to work; and ( b ) Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania don't really have the sex appeal of New York and LA, so there is probably no competition at this point for those areas.

I would have thought that Pennsylvania would have been a better choice because the State Tourism board for PA seems to be spending a lot more money buying ads and sponsoring blogs and websites than Ohio (but, I'm sure you know more about this than I do).

I think this is another good example of how to actually create a great travel site. Everybody and their brother are fighting to create generalize whitebread travel sites by major cities. But, I don't see that many people creating travel sites targeting sponsorship from State Tourism Boards and the motoring (automobile driving/buying) consumer.

Posted at 2:28AM on Apr 18th 2006 by Marion Paige

11. Will their be only US cities? Or you will remember your brothers-canadians? :)

Posted at 9:24AM on Apr 18th 2006 by Canada man

12. As an Ohio native, I like this. :-)

Posted at 9:39AM on Apr 18th 2006 by Jeremy Zawodny