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. Since January of 2005 I have run blogdowntown, an online news site for Downtown Los Angeles.

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.