Tag: blogosphere

I found a new Carson City-based blogger, Nevada Wolf. She has three blogs I found, Desert Geocaching, One thousand footsteps, and Nevada Wolf's 12 of 12. There's also a website about rural Nevada, with sections on prehistoric rock art and Nevada historical markers.

A Fresh Path is turning out to be a fairly fascinating blog. Mostly it's made up of trip reports from the author's various forays in backcountry wildlife photography in the wilderness areas north of Reno. But every now and then comes a post that could be helpful for hikers everywhere, like how to best build a campfire and how not to get lost in the wilderness. Even though my hiking days are a good ten years in the past, I still enjoy reading this site.

The Nevada Appeal has a profile on another blog written by a local, although looking at the site you'd never know it. MakeupBag.net, For the beauty obsessed. It's basically a site about makeup and other beauty products, and apparently it's pretty popular. Popular enough to be picked for the Top 10 "Hottest Beauty Blogs" by Women's Wear Daily. Popular enough to get the writer, Erika Valente, a press pass to Fashion Week in New York, where she is right now. Hopefully somebody's at home saving a copy of today's paper for her!

There's another new blog in town. It's the blog of the Nevada Commission on Tourism, and it can be found at blog.travelnevada.com. It's run by Ryan Jerz, who is the only guy in Nevada I know of that's been blogging as long as I have (at my other site, not here).

The first few posts detail their trip to Ely to visit the Fire and Ice festival. It's just about as excellent a start as you could want from a travel blog, and it points to good things coming in the future. I'm subscribed already!

They've also put up a video of the snow from January 8th.

So I started another blog. At least this one is kind of an offshoot of an existing site, not another entirely new website. It's the blog of the Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection, the WNHPC Blog. I hope to use it to write about building the collections of the WNHPC, and to highlight interesting photos out of the collection. And of course I'll be putting really interesting photos here too, but I'm hoping to make that a place where I can do all photos all the time without it getting overwhelming. You can follow the blog, or subscribe to its feed.

I have one big post up already, about a major addition I just made to the site. Today I added the Lawrence & Houseworth collection, or at least a part of it. The L&H is a collection of views of California and Nevada during the mid 1860s, about 1,500 in all. I was sifting through the collection and found a sequence of 118 shots that chronicle an expedition from Placerville to Lake Tahoe and Virginia City. The photographer made several stops along the way (what is a three-hour drive for us probably took them a week or two by wagon) and took tourist photos of the interesting sights from the trip. Then they reached Virginia City and got to business photographing main street and the mines. It's a fantastic sequence, and I just had to put up the whole thing. To see it, start here and click on the Next button at the bottom.

There was one set of photos that was so funny I had to give them their own post.

The fantastic thing about blogs is that you can devote them to the smallest of topics. That's what one Reno resident is doing with Reno Ballpark Update, and its companion blog. Reno Ballpark Update is an entire website devoted to just one thing: following the construction of a baseball stadium in downtown Reno. It looks like the site was set up soon after the ballpark was approved in September, and he's been posting little tidbits since then as the project goes forward. It seems like a pretty awesome piece of work by a guy who's nothing more than a fan of baseball. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to see more of around here, and I have a feeling we will.

I'm also jealous that this guy knows Photoshop (in fact, runs a graphic design company) and is therefore able to visually blow away everything I've ever created.

Three new local blogs I found: Langdon Life, Sierra Sage and The Tucker Times.

Long-time columnist Cory Farley was let go by the Reno Gazette-Journal last month. He accepted a buyout offer from the paper, and as of December 1 the RGJ has lost one of its unique voices. His final column is here, and a retrospective on his career.

Reno hasn't lost his voice though, because as one of the first acts of his "retirement", Cory set up a blog at coryfarley.blogspot.com (not CoryFarley.com, as his header suggests). He's already going strong in his first week, with his usual mix of political posts and posts about how he didn't realize retirement would involve so much housework. Hopefully he'll keep it up.

But it doesn't sound like he has much else to do. His new job is to be househusband to support his wife, who is a successful author with the Phantom Stallion series of books. Sounds like the kind of gig I'd like to have!

Two new local blogs that I've noticed that I added to the blogroll:

Teri Vance: Nevada Journalist

A Fresh Path

Photo from Facility Bike Club on Flickr.

If you're a cyclist in Carson City, you might want to catch up on the new Cycling Carson City blog. It's only been active for about a month, but it spun off from the Facility Bike Club blog, with archives going back three years.