Harold Herald Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/harold-herald Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:08:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Harold Herald Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/category/harold-herald 32 32 System Error 23: Bad Disk or File Name https://www.halphillips.net/3077-2?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3077-2 https://www.halphillips.net/3077-2#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:14:01 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=3077 [See below a 1996 article from The Harold Herald, the world’s first blog, which I invented in the early 1990s. Yeah, you heard me right … The act of ‘composing at the keyboard’ is so ingrained today, one can forget when and why that started — and just how many technological eras our lives have spanned […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/3077-2/feed 0 HH Flashback: Misery Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:05:21 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1296 [See here an archival excerpt from The Harold Herald, the world’s first blog, a form I invented in the early 1990s. Yeah, I did… One of the things that made the HH special, and thereby transcend the as-yet-created blog genre, was a stable of talented contributors. Dave Rose was one of these, and here we reprint […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-misery-can-neither-be-created-nor-destroyed/feed 0 HH Flashback: Nixon & Dave Remembered https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:15:18 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1317 [The Harold Herald, the blog prototype I launched in the early 1990s, was nothing if not political, though the coverage wasn’t always traditional, nor was it my own.  Mark Sullivan, a fellow alum/refugee from the Enterprise-Sun newsroom, was a frequent contributor. Today he’s a skilled and prolific blogger in his own right. His HH essay […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hh-flashback-nixon-amp-dave-remembered/feed 1 Who pioneered the blog? I did. No, really. I did. https://www.halphillips.net/who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really https://www.halphillips.net/who-pioneered-the-blog-i-did-no-really#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:13:35 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1250 Little known fact: I invented the blog. Managed to do it proto-style, in print, and achieve a level of virality before the Internet even existed. A pretty neat trick, if you think about it. Should’ve made me famous, or rich at the very least. Instead, all I got was this lousy WordPress account. In 1992, […]

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