Bud on The Community Engine Blog posted a while ago about all blogging being local. I agree with his sentiments but he seems to imply that the concept of the "Long Tail" passes a certain judgement on those blogs inhabiting it. The small, personal, and often intimate blogs make up a majority of weblogs out there and, as a group, present some of the most interesting territory for analysis.

I think Danah Boyd at apophenia's post about "sloppy speech" is related to this. She notes a shift in speech when a blogger moved from Blogger to MovableType, from a platform viewed as more the territory of the long-tailers to a platform that would like to take itself more seriously. There seems to be a linguistic shift, as well as a shift in projected identity, from big-to-midrange bloggers (or those trying to be) to the long-tailers.

As soon as I find the time (this week has seen burglary and illness) expect a longer post about these issues.