That means there is now a grand total of two now. This area isn't exactly New York City or Chicago, after all.
Still, there's another new blogger in town, folks. He's focusing on local issues like we do here at our WCF community blog -- but he's trying to put a focus on the "positive," which isn't a bad idea at all. It gets so very depressing around these parts sometime. I thus thought it was high time to introduce him and his blog.
This Blogger has been posting here recently under his blogger handle, UTmorMAN, BTW; and he's recently offered some excellent comments to several of the recent threads here.
His blog links emphasize ski area reports, and such other Utah winter sports stuff; so I'm automatically inclined to want to offer his blog my support, inasmuch as I've been an unreformed skier since about the time I first learned to walk, around 1949.
If you have any local favorite restaurants, other than the chains at the Layton Mall...he also has a post where he's looking for recos and restaurant reviews too; and there are other good things on his blog.
Check out UTmorMan's the good in ogden blog. Please also take note that I've linked his site in our WCF sidebar.
The more local bloggers the merrier I say! So please check out his site.
On a slightly different sub-topic, but still speaking of weblogs, there was a Jay Wamsley "Top of Utah Voices" article about blogs in the Standard-Examiner today. It's obvious that the blog phenomenon is making the entrenched print/broadcast media slightly nervous. The media monopoly seems unsure what to make of the bloggers. It was encouraging, though, that the Wamsley article, after wafting back and forth with the pros and cons like a feather in the wind, finally came down and closed with a "famous founding father" quote: "Thomas Jefferson said if the populace does not have enough information to make wise decisions, take not from them the power to choose, but give them more information."
I'll take that to mean that Mr. Wamsley believes blogs are actually O.K... but maybe I'll email him on that for a clarification, just in case.
For my own part, I'll suggest that the vast majority of issue-oriented blogs aren't intended to supplant the traditional media, which are bound, theoretically at least, by strict and formal journalistic standards. Rather, blogs are analogous, I think, to the corporate cafeteria, the local neighborhood coffee-shop, the barber/beauty shop or corner pub, where people gather to very informally discuss the current issues of the day, and share information and opinion. That's the same atmosphere I'm trying to encourage here; and that seems to be the direction that the good in ogden blog is headed too. This is all good, as Mr. Wamsley and Mr. Jefferson seem to suggest.
You can read the Wamsley article right here, by the way.
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5 comments:
I looked at this feel good new blog and thought it was a bunch of crap. Re-ran a fewf sappy Larsen SubStandard guest ediitorials and his own equally boring responses. What else you got to show us mr utah morman man?
The blog has been up for less than a week. It certainly will improve as I learn more how this whole blog thing works. Please be patient and it will turn into a place to go and discuss the good things in Ogden. Future discussions already in the works: The recently announced ice wall coming to Ogden. Photographic essays on Ogden, An editorial on CBCOF, and many more. "The Good in Ogden" will turn into a place where reader driven discussion can happen. Thanks
I'd be interested in hearing more about the ice-wall. Jeff Lowe's an old pal of mine who goes way back.
And I, too, have a CBCOF article coming up.
Keep on blogging, UTmorMAN, and don't forget: Rome wasn't built in a day.
An 80 foot rock climbing wall in the new Rec Center and a huge ice climbing wall East of Harrison on the River Walk-way. My vote goes to Jeff Lowe, who tried unsuccessfully to get permission for a real ice climb somewhere in the Wheeler Creek area (that little canyon running from just below the dam to mid-way up the Snow Basin Road.
Grab your petons and caribeaners, people. Ogden is ready.
To post or not to post....that seems to be the question. My hat's off to Rudizink for getting the WeberCountyForum Blogsite up and running, for it has provided me with much insight and humourous entertainment. Who are these people, these "anonymous" posters, these "Ozboys" and "Socrates's" who mysteriously post comments that are meant to inspire debate and dialogue, but who then slink back to where-ever they came from and grow silent while others debate the issues they've brought to light? Then, after their immediate issues have died down, they rise to the surface and post a comment on something else and the process re-starts itself again and again and again.
Viktor, the baseball/oxycontin guy who has now faded into oblivion, just when the going was getting good, got his rocks off slamming the Lindquists and baseball, was pummeled by one "Willie Mays," and has now faded to black.
"Utmormon," thrilled about the blog and having the courage to tell us that he needs to learn more about it, seems to have a good grip on what blogging is all about. His posts are snappy and right to the point; and he PARTICIPATES, people, PARTICIPATES!
"Enthused citizen," the guy who acts like he's running for office or something, never seems to miss a beat and his debates with "Rudizink" are great theater.
So, considering all of this, the blogsite that began with 20 hits per day, mostly from the same guy using different posting names, and is now receiving over 200 hits per day, is a hit (pardon the play on words). It's a shame that the Mayor and some of his cronies in City Hall don't jump on board and participate, maybe tell the readers their side of the story on some of the important issues we discuss, engage in the dialogue and debate, and contribute to Ogden's progress here as well as they want us to believe they are contributing at the City Council meetings.
A tip of the hat to everyone who makes this blogsite an intregal part of my day. Mucho gracias, people, a big "well done."
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