As the southwestern neighborhoods of San Francisco continue to gain momentum in the public eye through the Western Neighborhoods Project, violent freeway proximity crime, fairly "reasonable" home prices, and stellar coverage from SFist, it's no surprise that neighborhood blogs are starting to emerge from places most San Franciscans never thought existed (or believed were in Daly City).

One such blog has recently launched, called the Sunnyside Herald, authored by Sunnyside resident Steve Robles who has lived on Monterey Blvd. (that's hardcore Sunnyside) since 2002. Robles' blog not only provides relevant information for Sunnysiders about things like the always dramatic, never dull Sunnyside Neighborhood Association meetings, changing bus lines, and what will hopefully be a better, less ghetto Safeway on Monterey post-renovation, but also tidbits about the neighborhood that may be of interest to those of you who reside north of the Glen Park BART Station. That is, unless you couldn't care less about Sunnyside's beautiful Conservatory, which is currently undergoing restoration and is looking quite smart these days.

Who knew?

According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of the top markets for people who read or contribute to blogs. Yay. And, duh.

Along with other such indie- and techie-saturated cities as Austin, TX; Portland, Ore.; and Seattle, WA, what makes us a top market is due to so many youths living here, and our predilection for sporting the latest technology on our bodies. The report from Editor & Publisher goes on to say that bloggers tend to have different relationships to the Internets than the average American user.

That is to say, while your more crimson areas use l'Internet for such mundane tasks as email, shopping, online banking, and screwing in the name of Christ via eHarmony, San Francisco might use it for things like this.

See you in hell, SF and local bloggers. It promises to be quite the party down there. In our haste to ridicule others, we misunderstood this sparkling gem of an article. Apparently, WE are the ones using the Internets in such a, well, typical way. Eh, whatever. Point being: SF is tops in the blogging market. Ta-da.