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June 08, 2005
Let the Imitation Begin: Ye Olde Times Free Presse Gets a Blog
By C. Tyrone Biggums
Blog-O-Rocker
I work in a newspaper. The office has walls with pretty pictures of important things that happened before I was old enough to remember them: The first moon landing. The Bad Thing that happened in New York. Bob Corker's 40th birthday party.
Someday, this article may hang next to those pretty pictures. People will stare at it. They will be amazed at the antiquated artifact. They will giggle like underaged schoolgirls. They will say, "I can't believe his hair really looked like that." They will also be surprised to see paper. In the future, there will be no paper. There will only be skateboards with rockets on the back. And blogs.
This Friday, we're starting a blog. That means we're starting an Internet Weblog. That means we're starting a diary that is on the Internet. That means we're starting a diary that you can read when you turn on your computer.
This is an important moment. A special day. Not as historic as my bosses' birthdays, or their wedding anniversaries, or the day someone discovered hair gel, but big nonetheless.
Our bloggers will cover the news that matters most: the Riverbend and Bonnaroo festivals. We are sending reporters who are "square" enough to interview hippy douchebags rolling in the mud, and "cool" enough to rock out to the music of Jimmy Eat World. Meanwhile, I will be on the waterfront, turning tricks. I will tell you all about the madcap adventures I have, like the hot "behind-the-scenes" action at the Channel 45 newscast and how many corndogs that dude from US 101 can eat.
Don't thank me. This is what I do. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do -- after a hot shower and a little "me" time -- is think about Chattanooga. Because that is the city I live in.
We are not the first people to make a blog. But we are bigger than those other bloggers, so we're more important. God will smile when he hears this news. He will say, "Ye Olde Times Free Presse has a blog, all's right with the world." And so it is.
Welcome to the club, kids...
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