Serious Blogging - Doug Paul Davis > Rexroad.com

Yesterday Jenn and I took the kids to the Davis Farmers Market (DFM) to pick up some food for the coming week. Jenn probably attends 75% of the DFM events. We have friends that live right by the park so she combines her trips.

So as a regular reader of The People's Vanguard of Davis I knew that David Greenwald (aka Doug Paul Davis) would be there collecting signatures for his petitions on the War in Iraq. Boy was he there. Here is a blogger that has set up a website for almost no cost and has becaome a mini-celebrity in Davis. I think this is outstanding.

He posts almost every day on stuff that impacts the people of Davis in one way or another. Most of the time I completely disagree with his political conclusion but often agree 100% with his analysis and greatly admire the work that he puts into his posts.

His wife was there too -- wearing a Charlie Brown for Congress T-shirt no less. I met her for the first time yesterday.

Look -- David is so far to the left of me politically I would need a pair of high powered binoclulars to see him as a dot in the distance -- but I admire the guy for this pursuit of information and his dedication to his blog. The community is well served when we have people like him doing their thing. More information is almost always better than less information.

I believe that the success of blogs is about content. If you give people interesting and entertaining stuff to read they will read it. He does that.

When a blogger can have a booth and hundreds of people stop by to visit on a Saturday morning in Davis -- it shows the community hungers for this sort of information.

Right on.

Comments

By Bobby Harris @ Monday, May 28, 2007 10:51 AM

Thanks for the wonderful picture, Matt.

And I see that David is staying in the shade, what with all the heat over there in the valley. The Vanguard’s booth is looking real good, like the blog itself.

Like you, I greatly admire such new vehicles of community journalism, which via the internet have the potential to eventually gain rough parity with or even eclipse the ink & paper format of conventional newspapers.

Electrons are beginning too gain the upper-hand over ink and paper, and what Gutenberg began now seems like a pre-Copernican universe. Rather than information being concentrated and controlled, in a power-centric, corporate manner, it is now becoming the actual center of a new and improved comprehension and vision of the art of journalism.

The Vanguard is covering important news and events which influence the fundamental nature of community, but often don’t receive relevant attention from conventional media. Information is the currency of democracy and community dialogue, self-understanding and character, plus hopefully its ethical congruence and practices, along the horizon of evolving culture.

The Vanguard (and other such blogs, like Woodland Journal, etc.), represent the future trend of community discourse, while the basic paradigm of journalism continues to gradually shift toward adoption of a purely online model of newspaper.

I believe it’s about time for this broader journalistic dynamic to exist within Yolo County as a whole, especially in Woodland, and initial plans along these lines are now underway. Please stay tuned to these great community blogs, since that journalistic revolution will not be televised, nor will it be printed, it will be blogged.

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