Here's the article in the Canton Repository...
Dear diary becomes dear world; Local residents join world in blogging
Sunday, August 14, 2005
By Robert Wang Repository staff writer
Since he was a Washington High School sophomore, Garrison Ebie has been chronicling his life as a “productive slacker.”
The now 19-year-old Massillon resident writes about getting free breadsticks by sitting in Fazoli’s restaurant with just a cup of water. He comments on the Iraq war, fake people and Social Security, and likens John Kerry to Egon from the movie “Ghostbusters.”
He detests the low-paying jobs he’s held, and laments his lack of a love life and chronic lack of money.
But he likes filmmaking, and says he got a 3.4 grade-point average as a freshman at the University of Toledo.
“The only thing that stops me from being an all-around bum is that ... I’m actually pretty smart. I’m extremely creative. I have people skills. And I have common sense. I just don’t apply any of it.”
Such is the stuff of one local blog.
In theory, Ebie’s blog could reach millions. Generally, he said, it attracts about 20 people a day — some of whom complain about his refusal to use spell check.
“I like being creative,” he said. “I don’t really care if other people read it or not.”
Since Ebie started his blog about four years ago, thousands of Stark County residents have set up their own Internet journals.
Observers of the blogging craze, such as University of Illinois at Chicago communications professor Steve Jones, Edelman Diversified Services public relations manager Rick Murray and Internet consultant Aliza Sherman-Risdahl attribute the explosion in Web logs to 9/11, the Iraq war and the 2004 presidential campaign.
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