The outpouring of love and concern for our friend Katie has been something impressive to see. In addition to knocking down her blog for most of yesterday, mine went down sometime in the wee hours of this morning. I suspect the tweet from Heather Armstrong (@Dooce) had something to do with that.

There are so very many people who have reached out in person and online to express their condolences to Katie and her family that it’s only partially amazing to me that it has only caused two blogs to temporarily crash. As I said yesterday elsewhere in the online world, you all have done much to put a beautiful human face on the power of social media. I don’t try to speak for Katie often, but I suspect she would say this is why she loves to be a part of so many online communities.

Thanks to all of you. I’ll be posting links to additional information about Katie in a moment.

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I’ve been negligent in thanking some blogging friends for giving my new blogging project a shout out on their blogs and elsewhere, so allow me to rectify that situation now.

First, thanks to Michael Silence over at the Knoxville News Sentinel where he blogs at No Silence Here (and allows me to contribute as my schedule allows). He included a nice mention of the blog in his Sunday column in the paper’s printed edition earlier this month.

Also, R. Neal– one of East Tennessee’s great bloggers and host of Knoxviews.com, shared nice words about my blog (and Rikki Hall‘s wonderful new blog, too) and even included it in his live-stream in the sidebar.

Michael and R. Neal are two of the leading lights in blogging in East Tennessee (and I’d put them up there with high national rankings, too). In addition to providing me with entertaining reading for several years, they’ve also been actively encouraging me to get back to blogging full time. Of course, this all puts some amount of pressure on me to make sure I work hard to continue to earn their recommendations. Thanks for the support, guys!

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testpatternIt looks like today is all about technical difficulties. I awoke around 4 a.m. this morning to discover the blog here was having some technical issues with the sidebar that I’ve not yet been able to solve. I’ve sent out a message to the good people at PageLines to see if they have any assistance to offer.

Meanwhile, a project I’ve been working on at work for a new launch seemed to be going smoothly yesterday, but it has failed somewhere down the pipeline. So, more e-mails and maybe a visit to the office today will be needed to solve that problem.

In the meantime, why not enjoy Newscoma‘s tale of life in Hoots while I work on solving some technical difficulties?

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