The Brooklyn Public Library has been making the email rounds to promote a new blog it’s doing called Brooklynology. They’ve widely circulated email says:

I’d like to introduce you to a new blog on the block – Brooklynology. Created by the Brooklyn Collection, the local history department of the Brooklyn Public Library, this blog explores Brooklyn through photographs, maps, manuscripts, ephemera and more.

We think the name is disappointingly similar to the superb Newyorkology, then again, there is little shame in the blogging game from time to time when it come to, uh, engaging in the sincerest form of flattery. In fact, there seems to be less and less of it. And don’t get us started about the shameless fu… our really good and excellent friends in print media who are so scuzzy so ethical they always acknowledge where they steal find stories upon which they can expand without acknowledging those who worked so hard to ferret them out while they violate journalistic ethics work really hard reading blogs. We told you when we came back from our hiatus that we were both sad and cranky and less and less willing to pull punches. We are even more sad and more cranky and more cantankerous and raging than before and we’re only just starting to get loose and sharpening the knives.