Five years ago, I worked as the ‘BlogMaster’ for John DeStefano’s Gubernatorial campaign. I left that position to become the technology coordinator for Ned Lamont’s U.S. Senate bid in 2006. One of the things that I tried to do in both positions was to reach out the bloggers across Connecticut. I sought to include not only the most obvious political bloggers, but bloggers of all types.

Things have changed a lot since then. I can’t find my old contact lists from back then, and I suspect even if I did, many of the email addresses have changed, people have moved, or perhaps given up blogging altogether. Meanwhile, lots of new bloggers have joined the Connecticut Blogosphere and in various areas niches have developed.

A couple weeks, I attended a bloggers meeting with Ned Lamont. It was a small group of political bloggers whom have all known one another for quite a while. Since writing about this, I’ve been in touch with various campaigns that are interested in reaching out to bloggers. With that, I started to review some of the different Connecticut blogs I pay attention to.

Here are links to some of them:

Political blogs

It can be tough to decide who to list. Different blogs have different frequency of updating. Some are attempting to be more like professional news organizations. Others are opinion pages.

Some of the blogs in the political realm, in no particular order, are:
MyLeftNutmeg
Connecticut Blog
HatCityBLOG
CTBob
Cool Justice
The 40 Year Plan
Only in Bridgeport
CT Voters Count
Drink Liberal
YourCT
Lon Seidman
CT Blue Blog
Connecticut Political Reporter
Saramerica
Spazeboy
CT Working Families
NBPolticus
The Pragmatic Progressive
CT At Work

Lists

Various sites aggregate other blogs. Some of my posts show up on the Journal Inquirer. Others show up at the Record Journal blog list. Some also show up on other technology and marketing blogs beyond Connecticut. One of the best lists of Connecticut blogs is CT Weblogs

New Haven

The New Haven Register has recently reached out to a group of bloggers with their Community Media Lab

Some of these blogs include:
CT MMA News
Lockets Meadow
Budget Babe
Sound Bounder
Tagan’s Kitchen
Tom Ficklin

Some other interesting New Haven blogs include
New Haven Kids
On the road to greenness
Tomatoes on the vine
tasing-threesixfive
Satorial Sidelines
TristanRobin
Yalieyoonjoo

Hartford

I haven’t explored the Hartford area blogs as much recently, but I thought I’d highlight a few:
Mira Hartford Urban Compass
Live In Hartford

Misc

Some random other Connecticut blogs worth checking include:
Harvesting CT
This Sphere
Nutmeggrater
CT Energy
CT Green Scene
CT Smart Growth
Greenwich Blog
CT Real Estate Unleashed
Kate Rothwell
Grampy’s World
Moomette’s Magnificents
Frugal New England Kitchen
The Savvy Seller
Sweeties Sweeps
Touchd Blog
Mama Rucci
Beverly Kaye Gallery.

So, are you another Connecticut blogger? Are you interested in connecting? Exchanging links etc? I’ve recently been tweaking my site so I have different links showing up on different pages depending on your interests, you can link to just my Connecticut pages or my Politics pages and I can reciprocate appropriately.

Update: I've had some good emails with various bloggers and have updated the list to add several new sites. In addition, I'm now thinking of adding Connecticut125, as a list of sites that participate in various 125x125 exchanges. If you're interested, let me know.