Great Blogs of Fire! Retired PB Publisher is heating up Rochester's civic blogosphere
That familiar face you see pictured above is none other than Bill Boyne, the Post Bulletin's retired publisher and editor, who's been busy putting his eloquent voice and prolific pen back to work as one of RVoices charter bloggers.
Boyne, who served as the PB's main editorial writer for over two decades, was one of about twenty civic leaders who attended a hands-on blog training session that RVoices sponsored back in late November. Though Bill, myself and almost everyone else who attended the training session are still mere rookies as bloggers, Bill is a veteran journalist with over fifty years of experience as a newspaper reporter, editor and publisher under his belt.
And now Bill can add "Blogger" to his long and impressive resume as wordsmith. With three new posts in just the last week, Bill's off to a flying start with his weblog. He's already written about Intelligent Design, the world's pending Oil Peak crisis, and in his newest entry, Outsourcing Torture, about his take on the Bush administration's torture policies. Every new post Bill makes to his weblog automatically feeds into our Citizen blogs: recent entries block, over to the right.
As a blogger, I think you'll find Boyne's voice as eloquent, authentic, precise, informed and engaging as it's ever been.
The other day, when Bill told me that his eyes and mind been more focused on national than local issues of late, I shot him an email in which I wrote: "...with most of the rest of us blogging almost exclusively on local issues, it might be a nice change of pace that you are initially blogging more on national issues... after all, it's your blog ... and national issues affect us all, in Rochester, as much as any place else."
In another recent conversation with Bill, I also learned that he's currently at work on a book about the ecomomic and social impacts of the pending world oil crisis, and that he may, as its chapters unfold, offer us working-draft excerpts in his weblog.
Bill's insights and enthusiasm about the great potenial of weblogs and citizen-generated journalism to connect writers with readers, and citizens with civic leaders, in untold new ways, has me really fired up about the future of RVoices.org -- as town square, as a public gathering space where people arrive to discuss important issues, exchange opinions and ideas, agree or disgree with each other, yet always leave better informed.
Bill Boyne is an informative writer if there was one.
It's with great pleasure that RVoices welcomes Bill Boyne, a true professional, into his new role as citizen journalist.
Blog lots, Bill, and follow your bliss.
