The new issue of the Manitou Messenger (“The Student Weekly of St. Olaf”) is out and it has an article titled City bloggers go toe to toe by Tim Rehborg.
Last Tuesday afternoon, a group of men and women of all ages from the Northfield community gathered at Froggy Bottoms Pub for the first official F2F (Frog to Frog) Northfield meeting. The meeting, hosted by prolific blogger Susan Hvistendahl, who edits the FrogBlog, drew together several members of the Northfield blogging community.
Well, it’s actually F 2 F (Face to Face) Northfield, but come to think of it, Frog to Frog does have a nice ring to it! Thanks to Tim and photographer Adam for joining us. We hope to have another F 2 F event in May.
I especially liked the part about how Bruce Moreland (sic) started Northfield.org….
But kidding aside, it was a nice article.
Along with the Manitou Messenger story is a photo of Jane Moline, Ed Kuhlman and Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, all looking thoughtful. The caption was “On Tuesday prominent local bloggers from Northfield.org, ‘Locally Grown’ and other independent blogs met at Froggy Bottoms Pub. Northfield has an unusually active blogging community.”
Sorry Griff arrived too late to meet Tim and Adam from the Messenger, but “Locally Grown” certainly got good press in the story, as it should.
Thanks to you from “prolific blogger” Susan Hvistendahl of the FrogBlog.
So here is an article in your backyard. How about this one:.
Periodismo Ciudadano means Citizen Journalism in Spanish and the site promises to be a reference point for Citizen Journalism in the Spanish-speaking world. Neat. This is why I love the Internet.
Yikes, Griff, I broke your site. Any how, can you fix the previous item and give it some play. I think it is very neat. Thank you.
All fixed, Len… thanks for that link. Here’s the translation, courtesy of Google translate:
Ironically, the Messenger article has many inaccuracies (I counted 8 or 9) even as it reported on a discussion at the F2F event about the “journalistic accuracy” of bloggers.
It’s not a biggie with this article because the items are insignificant in a feel-good type piece. But that’s not often the case and traditional journalism hasn’t yet demonstrated much of a willingness to come up with a better system. I’m hoping the RepJ experiment can offer some insights into how it could be done.
In the meantime, if anyone knows how to contact Tim Rehborg, author of the Messenger article, please invite him into this discussion.