Discovering Vermont’s homegrown blogosphere

By Morgan W. Brown | Special to the Vermont Guardian

posted September 23, 2005

Anyone who has climbed a hill and, once there, called out to hear the echo of their own voice bounce back and forth, and then patiently waited for someone to answer back just might have a little blogger in them.

More than three years ago, I came across information about blogs and blogging. At the time, I thought it would consume too much of my limited time, energy, and resources in learning to set up and maintain a blog.

Back then, my online activities, including the activism I engaged in through the Internet, were chiefly dedicated to sending out and processing incoming mass quantities of e-mail, an avalanche of which often buried others as well as myself.

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