The Red Brick Times

Here comes our 15 minutes. I found this in my inbox this morning (it was sent after 11pm last night - this guy works late):

Hello - I'm working on a story on Elyria-based bloggers and came across your information on blogger. Hoping you have a few minutes to answer some questions. Thank you for your response.

Chris Powell, Reporter
The Chronicle-Telegram

I'm not sure how to respond. Most blogs/blogers would be overjoyed at the chance to increase readership/membership through the opportunity for free publicity, but we're not that type of blog (I feel like I just said something to the effect of "I'm not that kind of girl" - sheesh). tRBT has always been meant as a tool or convenience for a certain group of people who knew each other way back when. Membership is based on that tie making it kind of a closed thing. As far as readership goes I can't imagine how posts here would interest anyone outside of this group though Lord knows, we get our share of hits from all over. Any thoughts?
Posted 6:41 AM by whatley (2) comments

       Comments:

Maybe you should just tell him that. Its a private club where some actual live human interactions precede any cyber contact. Its a tool for people already known to each other not a media for creating a faux-society.

# posted by  A. O. : August 03, 2005 9:49 AM
 
Faux-society? Tony, you silver tongued devil you.

I've tried calling him a few times but, busy guy that he probably is, have only gotten voice mail. It's hard for me to figure how tRBT would fit into a local story about blogging so I asked him about that in an email. Here's most of it:

"Probably the first thing I would have asked is if 7393.org was really something that would lend itself to your story. Have you read any of it, especially the faq? It's a community blog, not a personal one. Though I do post a lot I don't exactly write it. I started it, registered the domain name, support it etc., but feel that the small group of friends using it are the owners. Should they lose interest it's history. Also, though that group did originate in Elyria many years ago, there isn't much posting about local issues.

Anyway, take a good look and let me know if you still want to talk."

We'll see.

# posted by  whatley : August 03, 2005 4:08 PM
 
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