July 03, 2003
They left out the funniest Seacoast blog!
Seacoast Online: Lo Down w/ Gina Carbone: Seacoast bloggers. Don’t know any local bloggers. How does one find them? Someone should have told Gina about GeoURL. The Dover (NH) Post and Pam got a mention, but as far as I am concerned, she missed the real epicenter of the Seacoast blogosphere which starts with Kreblog and radiates out to include Beer Night attendees and a few others like Lnotes, Everyday News, Granite Rants, Where the Wild Things Are, 4 Kids Mom and Dad or Garden Variety.
Posted by David at July 3, 2003 10:02 AM | EditThe thing that gets me is that the blogs she highlighted are barely active...what's up with that?
What's up with that is she was obviously writing about something she didn't know that much about.
I emailed her and told her about GeoURL after I read the article. Too bad she didn't bother to click on anyone's GeoURL button.
Anyone up for starting a NH bloggers index like the one in Austin Texas (http://koax.org/austin/index.php)? It's pretty cool.
Being a hack writer, and leery of throwing stones (I already have a hard enough time repairing my real house let alone a glass one), I try to be careful not to criticize, but as Dave pointed out (offline), the piece feels like a blog-wanna-be with dates thrown in to get the "blog effect". The thing that confused me was the June 2 "post" read like an introduction and not the latest entry. I kept scrolling till I got dizzy trying to orient myself to the correct chronology. While writing mostly technical pieces, I think Gina Carbone could learn a lot about newspapers and blogging from Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News (http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/). Some might argue that Gina doesn't have the right tools (Blogger/MT), and is doing the best she can with what her paper has given her. But as any blogger can tell you, the tool does not make the blog. Hell I know some sites where the person hand codes their HTML in Notepad. On the flip side, if Gina wants to continue her blog style, I encourage her to do so and to find her groove by reading as many varying blogs that she can. There is no wrong or right way to write a blog, but like a kid who's parent says "that's phat", we can smell when it is forced and not genuine. Just my .02 cents (anyone have change for a nickle?)
Well make me shout D'oh! and call me Homer Simpson, that's what she was trying to do with that piece. Now I get it.
Well make me shout Cowabunga and call me Michelangelo but don't make me read any more of Gina's blogs!
First, I do not blog from the seacoast, so perhaps I am not a Seacoast Blogger, but I am a seacoaster. I grew up in Stratham and Exeter, it is just that now I find myself in Japan. So the fact that my blog got mentioned in the article was quite a coincidence. Gina writes "a blog called OnMyMind that has a URL too long to copy and paste" ??????? THAT is just lazy...too long to copy by hand? OK. Too long to dictate over the phone? Alright. Too long to drag-n-drop? Gimme a break.
She had the opportunity to write an interesting article on the growing world of bloggers, but she chose to dismiss it and treat it as a fluff peice. She just doesn't get it.