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This is the second part in a series about the early days of garden blogging, written to commemorate my four years as a garden blogger. For those just joining us, the respondents to my email questions are:
Tamara Galbraith [TG], formerly of Talking Dirty, now publishing Can You Dig It?
M. Sinclair Stevens [MSS], longtime publisher of Zanthan Gardens.
Paul Owoc [PO], observant chronicler of a greenZoo.
Pam Shorey [PS], originally blogging at Outside in the Garden, and now at Rivermantic.
Erica Bess Duncan [EBD], writing at GardenSpot.
Ilona [IL] of Ilona’s Garden Journal.
Doug Welch [DW], keeping A Gardener’s Notebook.
Jennifer Zynischer [JZ], aka the Garden Djinn.
Kathy Purdy [KP], that’s me. I’ll be piping in with my responses. As a matter of fact, I’m the only one who got to see what the others said before writing my own answers, so I have an unfair advantage.
2. Of all the things you could use this technology for, why gardening? How did you see a blog working for you better than more traditional means of garden communication, such as a chat over the fence, a garden club membership, a plant society membership, or a magazine subscription? What problem were you hoping to solve, or what need did you want to fill?
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Dogs have dog-years, and the internet has internet-years. Four years on the internet is a long time, and as of today, that’s how long I’ve been blogging. I thought I would ask those gardeners who’ve been blogging longer than I have how they got started, and where they think this whole garden blogging business is going.
First, let me introduce my respondents. In no particular order:
Tamara Galbraith [TG], formerly of Talking Dirty, now publishing Can You Dig It?
M. Sinclair Stevens [MSS], longtime publisher of Zanthan Gardens.
Paul Owoc [PO], observant chronicler of a greenZoo.
Pam Shorey [PS], originally blogging at Outside in the Garden, and now at Rivermantic.
Erica Bess Duncan [EBD], writing at GardenSpot.
Ilona [IL] of Ilona’s Garden Journal.
Doug Welch [DW], keeping A Gardener’s Notebook.
Jennifer Zynischer [JZ], aka the Garden Djinn.
Kathy Purdy [KP], that’s me. I’ll be piping in with my responses. As a matter of fact, I’m the only one who got to see what the others said before writing my own answers, so I have an unfair advantage.
The questions are all ones I’ve wondered about, and I sent the same list to each of the bloggers listed above. I’ll present this as a panel discussion, where the anonymous moderator poses a question, and then we all take turns answering it. I hope you find the answers as fascinating as I did. I originally was going to publish the whole series of questions as one blog entry, but I realized it was becoming far too unwieldy. So I decided to break it up into several parts. The panelists had quite a bit to say about the first question. Click (more…) to start reading.
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