In a lot of ways, the first post on a blog can be both the least important, and the most important. It’s the least because when you start a blog your readership is pretty close to zero (one if you send it to your mom), so it doesn’t matter what you write. But it’s also the most important, because years later, when you’re a fabulous success, people will want to go back in the archives and see how you got your start. And the easiest post to find will be the very first one, and they’ll be able to say, “See? Even back then the genius was already apparent.”

And so with that I launch the experiment known as Seattlehound. This new site is kind of a weird idea, I’m going to be writing a placeblog about Seattle even though I don’t live there, even though I don’t even live in the same state, even though I’ve only been to Seattle about a dozen times in my life. But I have been there enough to know that that’s where I want to move to someday, and right now our plans have us making the big leap sometime in the next twelve months. So this is a good time to start establishing myself, to start paying attention to what’s going on in Seattle, to start getting into the Seattle groove. Then when we finally do move, I’ll easily be able to slide into real placeblogging that will come from actually being there, rather than watching from a distance.

If you’ve stumbled into this site, here’s a little bit of background info. My name is Scott, and right now I live just outside Carson City, Nevada. I run a placeblog there called Around Carson, as well as other local sites like Carsonpedia.com and the Western Nevada Historic Photo Collection. Plus I have a personal blog where I’ve been writing since February of 2002, nearly seven years. So I’ll be pulling from everything I’ve done on all of those sites and trying to apply it to my crazy quest to cover a city that’s 800 miles away.

I still don’t know how this experiement is going to work out. I’ve subscribed to several Seattle blogs, so I can keep up with what’s going on in the city. But will I just link to what others are writing? Will I try to come up with topics and opinions on my own? Will I come off seeming incredibly naive and like I don’t know what I’m talking about? Or will I grow tired of this and let the site sit in mothballs after three weeks? I have absolutely no idea. So, it should be exciting!

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