Every so often we get an e-mail from a reader asking why we don’t cover some particular topic. Usually, the answer is “we don’t know anything about it, but tell us more and we’d be happy to.”
But there’s another piece to it: the “Wallyhood We” conceit is just that: a conceit. There really isn’t a “we”. Mostly, there’s one guy who writes this when his day job is over and his baby boy is in bed. Which means we…I, really can’t cover everything that’s going on, because I can’t play roving reporter and writer enough to keep up with all the great things that are going on in Wallingford.
There are exceptions: Chris Witwer, our Lower Wallingford correspondent, and Sharon, our Playground correspondent, have been submitting regularly, and we’ve even managed to sneak a few posts out of Paul Dorpat, but we’d love to expand that bench. If you’re interested in exercising that writing itch and engaging your neighbors in a conversation about the topics that matter to us all, please let us know. We’d like this to be a Wallingford community blog, which means it’s written by diverse voices from our community, not just one voice.
Of course, if Wallyhood isn’t your style, perhaps Next Door Media, the Ballard-based company that owns My Ballard, Phinneywood, FremontUniverse, and QueenAnneView is. They’ve posted an ad to Craigslist looking to recruit some “North Seattle” journalists to allow them to expand their media empire into our little neck of the woods. It doesn’t come as a surprise (they told us they would hire bloggers to compete with us when we told them we didn’t want to sell Wallyhood to them), but it looks like the game is afoot.
Update 11/2/09: Wallyhood would like to extend a grave apology. One does not exercise an itch, one scratches it. Please accept our heartfelt apologies for mixing these metaphors.
As for competition — they’ll be hard-pressed to put together a blog as cool as Wallyhood, Jordan. Thanks for all your hard working creating & maintaining this blog.
By the way, you seem to be everywhere, so I assumed you were a stay-at-home Dad. In other words — you might not cover everything, but darn close!
go tell next door media to go pound sand. viva wallyhood.
You said it, Senor Tyler.
Don’t get run over, Wallyhood! Keep up the good work!
We check MyBallard periodically because our kid goes to school over there – I find it to be pretty mediocre and boring. We’ll stand by our Wallyhood! (And try to be better about writing usable material when I submit story ideas…)