Huckleberries Online

High Noon: HBO Tenure

Posted by DFO

Feb. 16, 2009 12:04 p.m. • 51 comments

If you will allow me a little self-indulgence on this, the fifth anniversary of Huckleberries Online, I’d like to know how long you’ve been commenting, blogging, or blurking (for those who want to take this special occasion to come in from the cold) in the Huckleberries Online blogosphere. I know that Cis & JohnA have been with me from the beginning. I’d forgotten that Digger had, too. Mebbe there are others. So let’s hear it …

Question: How long have you been with Huckleberries Online?

51 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

nic on February 16 at 12:16 p.m.
Since the summer of ‘06
hhuseland on February 16 at 12:17 p.m.
Almost the entire time.
Bent on February 16 at 12:18 p.m.
I happened upon HBO in the early summer of 2005
Duffer on February 16 at 12:24 p.m.
I’m mostly a Blurker now but I’ve been here since the git-go and think I’m responsible for ~20% of his page views!

I remember early on DFO sharply rebuking me when I suggested he was bringing too much of his personal religion and political beliefs to the S-R blog. Age and eight years of the Bush administration mellowed him on the political front fortunately! :)

Congrats David!
Sparky on February 16 at 12:25 p.m.
Reading since 2006 and commenting since 2007….

Congratulations DaveO
JeanC on February 16 at 12:34 p.m.
Since I have problems remembering what I did last week, at best guess I’ve been hanging out here for just a couple of years now :D
raymond_pert on February 16 at 12:45 p.m.
I discovered HBO in Aug. 06 and began participating a couple months later.
JeanieSpokane on February 16 at 12:45 p.m.
I’ve been here a year exactly. Almost went to the last Blogfest but I was way too new. Looking forward to meeting faces behind the avatars and other facades.
Arpie on February 16 at 12:51 p.m.
I’ve been here from day one. I’ve been trying to find my first “post” when I emailed you a week or so into things and asked the difference between a hucklberry and a hot potato. You answered, but I’m still not sure I know the difference.

It’s been a hell of a ride and a bigger part of my life than I care to admit. Happy blogiversary!
sibulsky on February 16 at 12:55 p.m.
pretty sure I’ve been here from at least day two…
Cis on February 16 at 1:25 p.m.
I don’t know which day I started to read…but just looked up in my files and found out that Feb. 20th at 8:01, I sent you my first email and you answered with question
to find out who I was and also.
How do I know all of this? I have my first email to you and your reply…
still
Katrina on February 16 at 1:27 p.m.
You found my blog and emailed me about adding it to the blogroll shortly after I started it in September ‘05, I think. So I guess I’ve been here off and on for around three years.

Hmm, doesn’t seem like that long.
danofthecommunity on February 16 at 1:32 p.m.
Well, you have a few quotes from me in October of ‘04 dealing with the question of writing in Ron Rankin’s name on the ballot that year but the first actual posting (which I think in those days were just e-mails sent to you?) was in November ‘04 and of course had to do with the General Election..

I at least feel like I’ve been here since the beginning of HBO time including the ” great black-out” period at the county…
Tumblewords on February 16 at 1:43 p.m.
I’ve been around since the fall of 2006 which hardly qualifies for a drinking license in dog years. Congrats on your huckleversary!
Duffer on February 16 at 2:00 p.m.
I found my “Official” recognition (5/26/04):

“DFO: Bayview Herb isn’t gonna like it, but I’m adding “Duffer” to my stable of anonymous commenters. He’s right about my batting average. And I’m glad I missed on two of my calls. I picked correctly: Currie, Clark, Hart, Chadderdon, Gridley and Nonini. I missed: Brodie, Jorgenson and Henderson. I was big-time happy to see Jorgenson and Henderson win. And we can do a lot worse than Katie Brodie in the commish office. Thanx for keeping score, Duffer.”

Posted by DFO :: 02:34 PM May 26
Dogwalkmusings on February 16 at 2:18 p.m.
July 2005
Cis on February 16 at 3:13 p.m.
Herb, what was the year of the first blogfest in Bayview?
Digger on February 16 at 3:31 p.m.
I’ve been corresponding with DFO since I was a junior in high school after bringing back the pledge of allegiance. We’d e-mail back and forth and he was on my list of press contacts for my UI student government races.

I started my blog on 2-2-04 (“My 2 Cents”), just ahead of DFO. I remember when he first e-mailed me and told me to check out his blog, “No Holds Barred”. I started to check it every day and then things really got interesting when the comments started.

I used to comment under my full name but then figured Digger would be fun to use. I’ve huffed off here a couple times but have always come back because HBO is addicting. (I’m slowly getting used to this new system).

Anyway, congrats DFO on 5 years of blogging. Its certainly been fun for me!
chatterbox on February 16 at 3:46 p.m.
I think I started reading around Christmas time of ‘04. I’d been working as a school secretary and had time off over the Holidays. We subscribed to the Spokesman and I’d read DFO’s column and gotten a chuckle or 2, so thought I’d better check out this new blog thing.
BigMac on February 16 at 4:17 p.m.
I started reading on the first day. I typed in the URL from DFO’s print column. My bookmark is still labeled “No Holds Barred.”

I’ve been reading ever since, but I haven’t fully participated since the comments went sour a few months back. I do miss all the good commenters we used to have, and I think the blog is poorer for their absence. I recall some good discussions of issues back in those days.

I’m not sold on the new blog software. The layout is clunky, and I dislike the avatars taking up the room of text.
inlandempiregirl on February 16 at 5:21 p.m.
For me it was about November ‘06 then I started my own blog three months later.
Stickman on February 16 at 6:38 p.m.
A lot of old timers commenting on this thread, I love it. For me, a little over three years now, and that was by accident. Go figure.
idawa on February 16 at 7:28 p.m.
hmmm…I guess in was in 2004 - after the comments section was added, so probably late summer/early fall before the election - I was rolling my eyes at the myopic conservatives even then. :)

I started blogging a little over a year later in early 2006 and was front paged a number of time here…but then, life and law school got in the way, and I haven’t posted or blogged as much as I used to.

I still, sometimes, get a kick out of this place.
Jen on February 16 at 9:23 p.m.
I started coming to Huckleberries around the beginning of 2007 a few months after I started my blog.

Congrats on another great year, Dave.
JIMMYMAC on February 16 at 10:11 p.m.
I started back sometime in 05, I would say prolly round springtime. Still my favorite website around.
markr on February 17 at 11:46 a.m.
mostly a blurker now, but been reading since fall of ‘05. Still the best place to find out what’s going on around here :)

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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.