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Eric Richardson

Born in South Carolina and now living in Los Angeles, California, I'm a programmer now trying to figure out the future of community news. In January of 2005 I started blogdowntown, an online news site for Downtown Los Angeles. In 2011, the site became a part of Southern California Public Radio, where I now work in digital media.

Contact

I can be reached via email at e at ericrichardson.com.

Blog Tech

I started "blogging" in November of 1998, well before anyone was calling it that. The blog started out running on eNews, a couple scripts I had thrown together to store news entries in an mSQL database. From April of 1999 to November of 2007, it ran on various iterations of eThreads, a Perl application I wrote to do discussion forums and blogs.

Today the site runs on verblog, a Ruby on Rails app that features a set of blog functions stripped down from blogdowntown.


Eric Richardson lives in Los Angeles, California, and is generally interested in the intersection between technology, community and news.

He started blogdowntown, an online news site for Downtown Los Angeles, and today works in digital media for Southern California Public Radio.

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