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  • Steve, outerb.com has also been asked to be on the Brian Lehrer Show on Friday, so I’ll be there. I’m looking forward to being there and meeting you!

    Posted by megc
    on August 8th, 2007 at 6:55 am

  • I knew it!

    Posted by Steve
    on August 8th, 2007 at 7:37 am

  • Brian and I will definitely be tuning in!

    Posted by Sarah
    on August 8th, 2007 at 9:21 am

  • Good luck on WNYC today. I’ll be listening.

    Posted by queensgirl
    on August 8th, 2007 at 10:56 am

  • Don’t listen yet! It’s not ’til Friday.

    Posted by Steve
    on August 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am

  • Oops . . . well, I listen to WNYC all day at work anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

    Posted by queensgirl
    on August 8th, 2007 at 11:21 am

  • What an excellent radio voice! Quite the Casey Casem!

    Posted by Melissa
    on August 10th, 2007 at 11:54 am

  • I just listened to your segment on WNYC. What a good way to get the word out about Queens blogs. What was it like being on the show?

    Posted by queensgirl
    on August 10th, 2007 at 11:55 am

  • Hi,
    I’m “Michele from Forest Hills” who was quoted by the substitute host today at the beginning of the segment.

    I listed you and other Queens blogs as a response to that irritating first segment on Brooklyn Bloggers on Brian Lehrer’s show on Monday.

    I’m so happy that you and the others got picked for the show today! Congratulations! Thanks for mentioning the three old townhouses at-risk being put up for sale on the south side of QB. I’m rooting for them!

    Here’s my original list from the Brooklyn Blog show (scroll down.):

    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/e.....ents/83306

    I don’t usually read a lot of blogs, but, as a native Queensian back in my native land after 15 years in Brooklyn, I had to represent my home borough.

    Posted by MickieT
    on August 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

  • Thanks, everybody! I’m going to post more about the experience a little later, but it was lots of fun, and great to meet a couple of other Queens bloggers, too. We revived the half-joking idea of a Queens blog summit, which I now think will probably happen soon enough.

    Michele, thanks for getting us on the air! Queens isn’t nearly so bloggy as Brooklyn, but there’s some good stuff out there, and it’s getting bloggier all the time. I felt like I had to work one big issue in there rather than just talk about the process, and the townhouses turned out to be it. Wish we’d had more time!

    Posted by Steve
    on August 10th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  • Hi Steve–We just listened to the WNYC Podcast–you sounded great! Is it just me, though, or did it sound like the host didn’t even look at the blogs before the segment? I though his questions were a little weak. But I think it’s awesome that it happened anyway.

    Posted by Sarah
    on August 10th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

  • hi i enjoyed the read

    Posted by Erick
    on August 18th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

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Queens dominates the media

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Exciting stuff going on these days as the universe continues to revolve around Queens, as well it should. First off, yours truly is scheduled to be on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, 820 on your AM dial, this Friday sometime between 11:25 and 11:40 in the a.m. perhaps even the whole 15 minutes. Truly, we all do get our 15 minutes of fame. We’ll be discussing Queens blogging. I do not expect to be alone (John from About.com? Harpsichordist Meg?), but at the moment, I am severely lacking in details. I certainly hope you got invited, Forest Hills 72 — after all, you’re actually posting stuff.

Second, there’s a new weekly newspaper in town: Forum West, covering Forest Hills, Rego Park and several other areas with which this website does not concern itself. It’s the companion to Forum South, an existing paper focusing on parts of Queens I’ve been to maybe once or not at all. Queens gadfly and Forgotten NY mainstay Christina Wilkinson is the editor and promises less pay-as-you-go journalism and more stories you might actually want to read. I will be contributing a column, and if there’s anything you’d like to see me cover, you know where to find me. No website yet, but stay tuned.

Are we changing the cachet yet?