Bridesmaid Revisited

Last week a reporter for Seven Days, an alternative weekly paper in Vermont, interviewed me for an article she was doing on blogging in Vermont. The main focus was MyDD's Jerome Armstrong, but she also did some profiles of other Vermont bloggers. I was quoted in the article¹:

[W]hile Daily Kos has raised the most for its candidates, there are thousands of other blogs bringing in a little here, a little there. It adds up. For example, Daily Kos reader Todd Pritsky, a technical instructor for Verizon² who lives in Fletcher, links to Democratic fundraising sites on his blog, Dohiyi Mir. Pritsky himself has raised $1500 for John Kerry, and $1000 for the DNC. “Pretty good for someone who’s just a schmuck in Vermont,” he notes.

That's an accurate quotation.

Alas, my blog was a victim of the editor's axe, so my profile didn't make it in the paper. Sayeth Cathy Resmer, the author, in an e-mail she sent today:

I'm sorry to say my write up of your blog didn't make it into Seven Days. You did get quoted in the story, but the piece was apparently too long to fit in the thing I wrote about your blog. Sorry! I just found out this morning.

Ah well, at least everybody who reads the article knows I'm a schmuck with a blog! I'm sure this will generate as much traffic as the time when the Philadelphia Inquirer mentioned my Queer Eye for the Deposed Guy post. And Cathy is organizing a Vermont Bloggercon on October 23rd that I will hopefully be able to attend.

BTW, there are two profiles of blogs run by people I correspond with on occassion:

www.librarian.net
Bethel

Jessamyn West is a 36-year-old librarian with dreadlocks — the editor, with Katia Roberto, of Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out. West, who lives in Bethel, works as the Outreach Librarian at the Rutland Free Library, where she teaches her patrons to “grok” email. She’s also an enthusiastic anti-capitalist blogger, who was featured recently in Wired magazine for her opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act.
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norsehorses-turf.blogspot.com
Montpelier

Morgan Brown is prolific for a blogger who posts only on public terminals. The 48-year-old Montpelier man has been homeless, off and on, for 31 years. For the last four he’s been “homeless with a roof,” often couch-surfing with friends or pet-sitting in order to stay indoors.
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Brown started Norsehorse’s Home Turf in May 2004, but has posted links there to an earlier blog about homelessness he started in November 2002. He’s also linked to some writing he’s done about depression and mental illness for various newsletters. By keeping it all centralized online, he’s able to share his experiences with the world and travel light.

Brown says keeping a blog helps him feel less isolated. And, he adds, “It keeps me rather busy, dry, warm (or cooler, depending on the weather), etc., at least whenever I have online access somewhere anyway.”

Check 'em out! And keep watching the news for something about me. I swear someday an article will be written solely about me and my blog, and it hopefully won't involve law enforcement officials.

ntodd

1 - Seven Days doesn't archive their features (grr), but here's the live link for the next week. I also exercised Fair Use and have created a PDF for posterity.

2 - I actually work for Hill Associates, but most of the teaching I do these days is for Verizon (like, say, this week in Silver Spring, MD).