Weber County Blogs Double in Number

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.