interesting blog posts on Portland Point

I guess it depends on your definition of interesting. He/she's being over the top on purpose (and admits to such), which is how the Internet works nowadays. With so much clutter out there you need to get people angry to draw interest. The blog wasn't getting any attention, so it ripped (in an over the top manner it apologized for) a band that a lot of people like. The band sent that to their friends. Their friends sent them mean emails. Now the Point matters. Great. 

Feeling bad, the Point then put up a nice post about how great Portland is because the town supported to "cool" shows it didn't really deserve on a rainy Wednesday. Great. 

I'd like for there to be more people commenting on local music, the Point included. More opinions and voices is better for everyone. 

Dylan was doing a great job here (http://soloudinhere.wordpress.com/), but seems to have stopped posting. Where'd you go, Dylan? 

I wish Chris Gray used his local blog more: http://ofmaine.wordpress.com/

And, of course, Bryan is doing some great work here: http://hillytown.com/

Except, I guess, they don't just rip people, so a lot of you have never heard of them, I guess. 

But, anyway, let's see if the Point maintains its momentum. Is it something where he/she's going to take a bunch of pot shots, get bored with it, and then bail? Or is this something that's going to continue for a while and build some institutional memory. 

This is where Dylan went: http://subengy.blogspot.com/

From music to video games and tech... what better life is there?

Sam pretty much hit the nail on the head about the Portland Point. Must be tons of fun watching the Wordpress Blog Stats on that one...

And about my So Loud In Here blog...I felt like I was losing direction with it, and at the same time I was getting really busy with school work (this is around March or April). Plus I find myself working better when I'm on some sort of team or writing for another publication. I still blog, but more collaboratively now. I'm doing the video game blog above and my band's blog as well, which discusses local music amongst pop culture and the music industry. It gets updated a lot so check it here: http://tstl.wordpress.com/

I'm not declaring So Loud dead yet. I just need a good solid direction for it before I start posting again. Maybe I should start contributing to MaineToday again... Chris Brown said I was doing a good job with that.

Just added the Tony Smokes blog to my google reader. Well done.

Thanks for the support, Sam. I really appreciate it!