When:  Thursday, 09/18/08, 7pm until 9pm Where:  The Abbey Bar (upstairs at ABC Harrisburg) What:  A meetup of the blogHarrisburg contributors + Central PA Twitter users The third Thursday of every month, us bloggers and Twitter users (Twitterers?  Tweeps?  Twits?) get together on the second floor of Appalachian Brewing Company on Cameron Street to get together and share in good company, food, and whatever seasonal beer (or chocolate milk, for the under-21 crowd) ABC happens to be cranking out.  We’re a very friendly bunch, and our group grows in size every month.  The tweetup is open to anyone from Central PA with a Twitter account as well as all of the contributing bloggers featured on blogHarrisburg.  Hope to see you there!

OMG. LOL.  WTF. This is my new favorite commercial. (TIMNFC)

My daughter, Danielle, who is about to start her senior year at CD High School and wants to become a professional photographer, has spent part of her summer blogging with a program for high schoolers sponsored by The Patriot-News. Danielle and some of her fellow high school bloggers were featured Wednesday in the paper’s weekly metro section. Here’s a sample of her work. Source: The Patriot-News

This is the way a news blog is supposed to work – the publisher puts something on the table and readers become citizen journalists. Here’s what happened: Yesterday I previewed the Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors meeting and pondered whether an agenda item would mean the end of free mulch piles at Koons Park. Meeting time rolled around Tuesday evening and I was busy doing whatever and didn’t get a chance to watch the meeting on TV, Comcast channel 20. “Darn,” I said to myself. “This means I’m going to have to bug the township manager or whoever to track down the story.” Well, I cracked open my e-mail inbox this morning and found a piece of gold: Gazette reader B sent me an unsolicited report on what happened – free mulch will continue. (If you click through, check out the comment.) This is the essence of what Linglestown Gazette is evolving into – LP and Linglestown residents banding together to keep on top of what’s happening in our community. Others are doing similar stuff and believe me I appreciate the heck out of it. If you’re still on the sidelines, what are you waiting for? Learn how to post a comment or shoot me an e-mail when you see something that others might find interesting. Come one … jump in, the water’s fine! ____ If you're unable to figure out how to post a comment, please send me an e-mail with your phone number and I’ll walk you through the process via phone. I’ll even make a home visit if you live close to the Gazette newsroom. In some cases it may be necessary to verify information posted in comments. To make this possible, it would be helpful if you include an "active" e-mail address in your Blogger account profile.