When Kurt Hochenauer started his left-wing political blog Okie Funk in 2004, he saw it as a service to Oklahoma liberals who didn't have a place to read a local political blog that wasn't ultra-conservative.
According to Kurt, the best way you can improve your blog is to improve your writing. I think this is something that I can implement in my blog. When Kurt started his blog, there was a content vacuum that he wanted to fill. However, today the blogosphere is completely flooded with hundreds of millions of blogs. This makes finding an audience a relatively daunting task. Kurt's solution to this is to make sure that you know what you want your content to be and stick to it.
As someone who is interested in political reporting, I really enjoyed listening to Mr. Hochenauer. His task in the face of adversity is pretty inspiring. It would be difficult to work against the right-wing tide of Oklahoma for almost 10 years, pouring over hateful comments and resisting the urge to fight the trolls.
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