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Showing posts with label Blog Hedgehog Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Hedgehog Report. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

The first blogger in Howard County speaks


The first blogger in Howard County speaks.

I read Dave Wissing’s recent post in “The Hedgehog Report,” “HoCo: Whatever Happen To….” – on May 4, 2009, with great interest.

In it, he commented at some length about: “The Baltimore Sun had a good article yesterday on the growth of blogging in Howard County. A couple people emailed me asking why my website was not included and Wordbones even highlighted this on his website when mentioning the article. The truth of the matter is the reporter did contact me by email a few months ago.”

[…]

“With the previous profiles in mind and looking at the websites mentioned in this article, I did find it interesting how things have changed. The Baltimore Examiner probably had the most in-depth profile of the Howard County Blogging Community in April 2006. The article is no longer available on the Examiner website…”

The Examiner article: “Ranting & raving for the whole world to see” By Dan Gainer of The Examiner November 6th, 2006 is still online: http://tinyurl.com/ce5ckg (A reference to it may be found on my blog here: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2006/11/20061106-ranting-and-raving-in-maryland.html)

“… (heck, The Baltimore Examiner doesn’t even exist in paper form anymore) and at the time, there were only four known blogs be written out of Howard County. I still hold some pride in that I was the first (starting in December 2002)…” Read Dave’s entire post here: HoCo: Whatever Happen To….

In spite of his gracious unassuming modesty, it would have been appropriate if the article had given him a mention...

Blogs did not just happen overnight. The phenomena took years of hard work.

In the beginning it was lonely and at times, extremely frustrating. (My faltering beginnings go back to 2004… and) his blog, “The Hedgehog Report” really influenced me. In my beginning years, Dave was always helpful, gracious, knowledgeable and ever willing to lend a hand.

He was out there when there were just a few of us and his blog was then, as it is now, influential, not to overlook, groundbreaking. See: "The Howard County Gang of Four" August 21, 2006

I appreciated the Baltimore Sun article, if not for the one reason that I can well remember when the traditional print newspapers wanted to ignore us and wished we would go away. (The Associated Press still will go to great lengths to not credit blogs…)

It was only three years ago that I published, “How is Internet media held accountable?” in The Tentacle on January 25, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/ckd9pw – the working title of the column was “What is a blog.”

Nonetheless, I continue to be disappointed with the lack of depth and history that goes into such articles. Too much of the media today has the attention span of a goldfish.

Thanks Dave, for all your hard work… and all your help over the years.

~Kevin Dayhoff http://www.kevindayhoff.net/

Related: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2006/11/20061106-ranting-and-raving-in-maryland.html

http://www.examiner.com/a-381542~Ranting___raving_for_the_whole_world_to_see.html

How is Internet media held accountable?” in The Tentacle on January 25, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/ckd9pw



Monday, August 21, 2006

20060820 KDDC The Howard County Gang of Four



The Howard County Gang of Four
August 21, 2006

Howard County Bloggers host an on-line county forum for the upcoming elections.

The Baltimore Sun article by Larry Carson that Crablaw first called to my attention:Local bloggers play political role” was published Sunday, August 20. 2006. Of all the Sun’s writers, I appreciate Mr. Carson’s work.

You may wanna be sure to read Crablaw’s observations.

David Keelan at HoCoBlog observes: “
Local bloggers play political role.”

I first mentioned the “Gang of Four’s” participation in the election
here.

HoCo Hayduke reports,
“In case you haven't heard, the Gang of Four (Local Bloggers) will be sponsoring
an on-line candidate forum for most local elections beginning in October. More
details
here.” Actually, the author of the HoCoMD Blog kindly emailed me the press release earlier today. Thanks. This is a great opportunity for Howard County voters and a perfect role for the four blogs: HoCoMD Blog; The Hedgehog Report; HoCo Hayduke; and Howard CountyBlog.


The first three paragraphs of Mr. Carson’s article are:

Candidates' forums can be inconvenient -- and lengthy -- to attend, but a
politically diverse group of Howard County bloggers is planning an electronic
question-and-answer session for the general election that voters can use when
and how they please.

Although Republicans David Keelan and Dave Wissing
and Democrats Ian Kennedy and Evan Coren do not share the same political
philosophy, they all started local blogs based on politics or development, and
they eventually connected and decided to collaborate.

They appear to
have achieved a level of civility in short supply in Washington or Annapolis
these days.


A sampling of posts on KDDC that are Howard County oriented are:

20060819
KDDC Wi Fi for Carroll County

19 Aug 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff… As
I was grazing the blogs of my colleagues in Howard County, I came across this
excellent post by Evan on the Howard County Blog: “Wi-Fi.”. In my column for the
Westminster Eagle, I have written two pieces specifically on Wi-Fi...

20060808
KDDC The Howard County Gang of Four bloggers

8 Aug 2006 by
Kevin Dayhoff… “Politics in the Enchanted Forest:” The political silly season
has already begun in Howard County , known as the former home of the " Enchanted
Forest
." In our neighboring county, politics have recently started to resemble
the...

20060624
KDDC The Running Mate Decision

24 Jun 2006 by Kevin Dayhoff
The political silly season has already begun in Howard County, known as the
former home of the "Enchanted Forest." In our neighboring county, politics have recently started to resemble the storybook theme park that prospered in...

And this is as far as I have time today to chat or graze my colleague’s site… Maybe more later? Meanwhile, other work is going to interfere to my life on the net… I’m looking forward to working this Association of Howard County Bloggers – they are quite a talented group of folks and their blogs are an invaluable source of information for me.


Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.

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