I’ve written about it in the past; blogging changed a big chunk of my life; when I started the blog, in 2002, I was a newly-divorced parent with a couple of young-ish kids. I hadn’t had a lot of time for a social life in quite a while. The blog, the NARN and finally the MOB opened up my social horizons in ways I’d never imagined.<\/p>\n
I’ve also kept my day job and my radio and blogging lives pretty religiously separated.\u00a0 There aren’t two people at my day job who know about the radio show or the blog; I don’t let on where I work to many outside my family and the NARN.<\/p>\n
Indeed, in all my years of blogging, I’ve met very few who linked both worlds.<\/p>\n
In the nineties, I was working as a technical writer – mostly writing instruction manuals for badly-designed software.\u00a0 And one of the greats in the field was this guy, Matt Abe.\u00a0 He was, for many years, the president of the local “Society for Technical Communication” chapter, the professional group where techwhirlies met, networked and looked for that next gig.\u00a0 Matt had worked with a few friends of mine; everyone said he was a great guy and a great boss.<\/p>\n
And then I left tech writing; the ideal tech writer is someone with a left-brained detail focus, and when it comes to details I’m the kind of look at that shiny object on the floor.<\/p>\n
So I was pleasantly surprised when we held the first MOB party to find that not only was Matt Abe a blogger (not at all rare among tech writers) but a darned good conservative one; he runs Northstar Liberty<\/em>, one of the essential conservative blogs in the Twin Cities, especially on (a subject obviously near and dear to my heart<\/a>).<\/p>\n And he covers the waterfront, subject-wise; an excellent writer (doy, he does it for a living) and a much -better-than-average analyst<\/a>:<\/p>\n