Thursday, January 8, 2009

Tulsa Blog Update: Some Up, Others Down

The Tulsa blogging community got a cover story in Urban Tulsa Weekly in October. The article, by reporter Kathryn Benson, featured brief profiles of several Tulsa bloggers, including Michael Bates of Batesline and Jeff Shaw of Bounded Rationality. Even AT got a few kind words.

Unfortunately for T-town readers, the local blogging community isn't exactly thriving. Dan Paden, one of the bloggers featured in the UTW article, has stopped blogging, at least for now. His blog, No Blog of Significance, has been taken down. Although we almost always disagreed with Paden's politics, he was an energetic and passionate writer.

Over at the Tulsa Bloggers site, failed politico and local radio blabber Chris Medlock's Medblogged seems to have died as well. Tulsa Chiggers is still going, apparently, but it's not very active; its last post was some weeks back.

Other blogs featured in the UTW piece aren't burning through the electrons either. Indie Tulsa, Emily Priddy's blog that features interesting local businesses, published its last post in October, an eternity in blog years. Even Natasha Bell's culture blog, tashadoestulsa, is irregular in its postings. She's been active recently, but was (justifiably) distracted by baby duties in the last few months. (At least, that's our guess.)

Meanwhile, Tulsa Today keeps publishing nonsense, so there's not much to recommend this blog except its regularity.

The good news: The blogosphere remains wide open and Tulsa writers are always popping up with new blogs on a variety of topics. We try to keep up, but there are many Tulsa-area sites out there worthy of a look.

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Tulsa Food Blog is a little ugly, however, alive!

Nice post!

Jim said...

Great post! It's great to see more local blogs that are out there.

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My name is Major Paul Clark of the United States Army Tulsa Recruiting Company. I have been impressed by the way the community has come together during the trying times this recent snow storm has brought to the citizens of the Greater Tulsa Area. I have seen neighbor helping neighbor; stranger coming to the rescue of others on the road as hundreds found themselves stuck on roadways and highways; folks shoveling snow for elderly that could not do so for themselves and the best part? It has all been paid for out the generosity found within the hearts of caring people in the area wanting to show random acts of kindness and love for their fellow man.
That was all shattered today when I was involved in an incident with a local business, Asplundh Tree Expert Company, . I live in Broken Arrow and learned of an elderly couple in Coweta that had no means of getting around and in desperate need of food and medications they had ran out of . I drove to Coweta to assist this couple. I turned onto a neighborhood street that had a single path cleared out. As I was driving down the road, I was met head on by a 5-10 ton truck owned by Asplundh. I moved slightly to the right to allow the truck to pass, believing the driver of the Asplundh truck would have done the same. As I moved to the right, the Asplundh truck moved over taking the entire roadway forcing me off the road.
I first thought the Asplundh truck would have stopped to pull me out of the ditch they had forced me into in order to prevent a head on accident. I was disappointed when the Asplundh truck continued driving away. There were dozens of Asplundh truck driving the side streets of Coweta, but none would come down the road where I was stranded. I finally walked up half a block to flag down another Asplundh truck by standing directly in front of it. I expressed to the driver of truck #07, Arthur, what had taken place and would appreciate their helping since it was my courtesy toward Asplundh that had but me this situation. Arthur explained to me that all Asplundh employees had been instructed to help, "NO ONE". In a time where stranger was helping stranger, tow trucks were pulling folks out of bad situations at no cost, Coweta Police Officers and Fire Fighters were running to the aid of stranded motorist, and Asplunhd with dozens of 5-10 ton trucks in this small community were instructed to help "NO ONE". I asked Arthur for the phone number to his field supervisor, Ron, for which never answered his phone. I then queried the office number to Asplundh and spoke with Michelle from the main office. She indicated to me that for liability purposes, Asplundh employees were instructed not to assist others. I shared with her the reason I found myself in the situation I was in. She asked me to stand by while she attempted to contact a manager. About ten minutes later, she called me back stating that the truck could not assist, but if Arthur's crew so desired to help manually by pushing my vehicle out, they could do so. Arthur agreed that his crew would assist and it took all of 20 seconds to free me from the situation Asplundh but me in, "thank you Arthur and your crew"! Too bad it took 45 minutes to get the commitment from the main office.
As for Asplundh, I am again sorely disappointed that in what our Governor deemed a state of emergency was more concerned about liability than assisting the community. I ask Asplund this; Are your liabilities and profits so more profound than the citizens of the Greater Tulsa Area? The same people you rely upon for continued success? Shame on you and the selfish nature for which you conduct yourselves. As a leader in the community and in local communal organizations, you can be assured you would be the last company I would call upon, and the last company I would ever recommend to anyone. I think most of the community would share in my belief that you need to rethink your priorities.

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