Digital HoCo

Hayduke welcomes another Howard County blogger to the 'sphere. Unfortunately, the new blog is named "Howard County Blog," which is the same name as another blog that had been inactive for several months but has recently been updated with posts about the executive race, the smoking bill, and the Football Team Worthiest of Irrational Loathing.

There has been a link to the first Howard County Blog since the dawn of time (for this site, anyway); so the new one is going to have to go by HoCo Blog in my Links section on the right (the two of them are more than welcome to battle each other for naming rights, and I'll gladly rename my links accordingly).

HoCo Blog seems to be focused on the charrette, although his tag line ("A Blog on what is going on in Howard County") promises a broader range of topics. In only a week, he's already posted several pictures--an impressive rookie-blogging accomplishment if ever there was one. Go check him out.

Despite my ultra-competitive nature, I don't view these blogs as competition. To the contrary, they'll help inform my writing and I hope to help inform theirs. The goals of this whole blogging thing are, or at least should be, to make information more available and to foster discussion. So, I say, the more the merrier.

On a related front, a group of entrepreneurial teenagers appear to be starting an on-line magazine. See, not all teenagers are spending their free time doing whatever it is we're scared of them doing nowadays.