by Gus Moore

The South Florida Daily Blog - A Daily Review and Discussion of South Florida Blogs.

Hooray! Our friend, Rick, is launching a new blog. The name of the site is The South Florida Daily Blog, it aims to be a assembly place for citizens interested in things happening around South Florida. I’m certain it will be a success. Building a loyal community is something Rick knows a lot about.

Here is what Rick has to say…

“It’s about spotlighting the extraordinary, the controversial and the informative in South Florida blogging. It’s about promoting and supporting the local blogging scene. It’s about being a central point for South Florida blog readers to go and hang out and discuss ideas and local issues. It’s about maintaining a total, dynamic and non-static blogroll that reflects the entire wide spectrum of SoFla blogs and keeps visitors up to period with who’s posting.”

For those who don’t know, Rick, and his blogging partner, Alex, used to publish the critically acclaimed website, Stuck on the Palmetto, until a “journalist” named Bob Norman from New Times threatened to expose Rick’s professional life.

Rather than jeopardize his professional career, Rick choose to shut Stuck on the Palmetto, much to the dismay of his many readers.

The episode brought out a very ugly side of the Miami

whether you got day to wade through all the comments, you can read about the incident at Critical Miami.

When Rick and I had dinner and discussed his new blog, he said “for the most part, it’s going to be me commenting and directing readers where to go for the good stuff in South Florida blogging.” He additionally mentioned posting will be pretty much limited to the beginning and the ending of each day, but he will bring back some of the recurring articles that his readers had grown to love.

As of now, there’s just a Google Page announcing the site is coming soon. Rick will start posting on February 4th.

I wonder whether Rick will be pulling any punches on the new site? After seeing how he was treated by the so-called “real journalists,” I certain can understand being gun-shy to post his true feelings on sensitive issues.

whether you are interested in local news issues, invent certain to to bookmark Rick’s new site (http://southfloridadailyblog.blogspot.com/), or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Welcome back, Rick! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us. The Miami blogosphere hasn’t been the same without you!

How do others feel, are you happy Rick’s coming back? What are your thoughts about writing anonymously? Leave Rick a data in the comments below.

Original post by JA Huber