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Wild Card/Tuesday — 2/13/07

Posted by DFO

Feb. 13, 2007 5:56 p.m. • 0 comments

As Huckleberries moves toward HBO Blogfest ‘07, we have encountered some nasty exchanges and personal pot shots in the “comments” section. Dunno what’s in the air or the water, but I must admit that I think the personal shots are so 2005. Spectators still enjoy seeing a coupla guys go at it. But I just roll my eyes. If there’s a time when I was fascinated with that stuff, and there was, I’m not now. This blog has replaced flame wars, by and large, with passionate but friendly conversation. I want it to stay that way. I killed 4 items yesterday in which the poster made unsubstantiated cracks about someone in the community. Bad form. I hope this recent outbreak is nothing more than a blip. If you really want to be nasty, and slander someone, I hear the Coeur d’Alene Press blog site is still welcoming one and all, without adult supervision. Now, for your Wild Card …

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.