I was thinking about the folks who attended blog fest. The exchanges between many of them have been legend. Yet here they were being photographed together, tipping a brew together, chatting about who knows what - all together. They'll all go at it again to be sure. ... This is a different type of information than one would get from the newspaper. It's not objective reporting; sometimes it's anything but factual. Sometimes the facts stare us in the face and for what ever reason we don't recognize them, or don't want to. What it is, is energetic discourse. It's what people are thinking as they think it - no matter who they may be. It isn't a canned speech. It isn't "spin". It's real/Dogwalk Musings. More here
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.