ann arbor is overrated.

Goodspeed attempts to quantify local blogs as a measure of cool-city-ness. His first stab at it puts A2 at #18 in the nation in “online civic culture.” (Which is as good of a description of it as we’ve ever heard; could those who view blogging and the Internet in general as “isolating” be missing the point any more?) When he refines his methodology a little and puts together a “highest blogging per capita” list for metropolitan areas, Detroit, with which he’s now included Ann Arbor, comes in fourth, and Chicago doesn’t even make the top 20. We’re not sure what to make of all this, except we like the asterisk across from Ann Arbor in the “‘Coolness’ Rank” column. A2: not a significant source of cool.

Oh, yeah, and, RED SOX!!!!!