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Cyberscenes is tracking no less than 22 blogs that are based either wholly or in part in Newton, although the city did lose a major player recently when the anonymous blogger behind the Borderline blog retired his keyboard in January.Cyberscenes tracks 16 Watertown blogs.And yet I also suspect that Newton and Watertown's status as battleground cities for commercially generated news blogs also contributed to their high rankings.Both the Newton Tab and the Watertown Tab weekly newspapers have highly active blogs, and last year the Globe launched Westword (now called Globe West Updates), its first suburban news blog , covering the area served by the newspaper's Globe West section.A search for either city on Outside.in comes up with scores of postings from both the Tab and Globe blogs.The rankings have also touched off a raging debate at the local blog aggregator site Universal Hub (universalhub.com) , where bloggers in other cities were somewhat incredulous at the rankings.
The skeptics include Universal Hub's creator, Adam Gaffin ."Sorry, and no offense to folks in these two fine communities, but, just, no," Gaffin (who also covers local blogs for the Globe City Weekly section) wrote in a posting last week .
"Cambridge has at least 90 blogs and Somerville 60 or so."
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