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October 02, 2007

AFI embraces the blogging community

I’ve been spending a lot of my free time recently reviewing the latest edition of the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, an update to the list they first created in 1997. What does this have to do with blogging? A lot. AFI has a blog.

While looking for the list online, I was pleasantly surprised with AFI’s web site. Not only do they feature podcasts (more like vlogging), photo galleries and more film buff information than the biggest critic would know what to do with. But what I enjoyed most was AFI’s blog, chronicling the Top 100 films included in their list.

While I’d love to see more posts since the content is so good, what’s posted is great. Not only are the posts well-written and make you want to update your Netflix queue as quickly as possible, each post highlights other movie blogs and chimes in on what the blogosphere is buzzing about. Take a look at this post for an example:

“When John Campea over at The Movie Blog said HALLOWEEN (1978) was a terrible movie, he received a response saying that the film was “A Classic.” Which begs the question, what makes a classic movie?”

I can only imagine how excited some of these blogs must be to log in at some point during their day and see an incoming link from AFI.

AFI gets it. The movie community online is huge, and their links to, and mentions of, other blogs definitely reflects their with-it attitude of the blogosphere.

Posted by Alicia Dorset at October 2, 2007 04:39 PM