Thanet has arrived according to technorati at any rate. It seems that sometime around the October to November 2007 the word "Thanet" started to register on the global radar. This is great news for all Thanet bloggers and web surfers because it means that the island is finally forging an online identity.

We have a long way to go before Thanet is, in any way, an interesting enough topic to attract financial impact outside of a few isolated blogs but we are starting to get noticed. However, compare that with Kent as a whole (which also started to register around the same time and we only have 1% of the impact that Kent manages.

Keep reading for a live chart of the uses and mentions of Thanet within the last year (and a static capture of that chart).




Above is the live chart - so it might differ to the still shot below as it will change over time. If you view the HTML source for this page you will be able to locate the code to put this image on your page.



With such a weak innings against Kent as a whole we hardly register at all beyond the 5 to 10 daily mentions we get and that can be accounted for in local blogs alone. So how can we compare to or even over take Kent as a topic for discussion?



I'm not sure there is any one specific thing we could do to magically become a more interesting topic. Having good local satire helps as does the reasonable and some times cutting political commentary (often as satire) that Thanet's bloggers have been bringing to the party. Finding something good to say about the area (there must be something) is about the only thing we are not so good at as a whole.

Yes TDC and KCC deserve every running down they walk themselves into but sometimes it is soul destroying to keep so heavily focused on the negative. Why else are the satire blogs so well read?

In answer to this I intend to dedicate 14 days (two weeks) to positive blogging. Every day I will find something good to say about Thanet bloggers, Thanet people, Thanet business and Thanet in general. If I have to make an extra post some days then I will.

Will this change the world?

Maybe not. What it will do is show that there is something worthwhile left in Thanet. All is not lost and there is plenty yet to gain despite the efforts of a large number of council members.

So to end this post here is a video of a little Thanet urban action.