Jay Garmon – www.jaygarmon.net

Name: Jay Garmon

Your company (if applicable): N/A

Blog URL: www.jaygarmon.net

Where do you live?

Plainview/J’Town

How long have you been blogging?

Since 2005.

What blogging platform do you use? (WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, etc)?

For my personal blog, I use Blogger. For some of my work, I use WordPress, blogger, and a have or do use a couple of other proprietary platforms. I’ve done time on Drupal before, too.

Do you blog for business? for pleasure?

Both. My personal blog is most just for fun and mental exercise. But I blog professional for a portion of my income.

How does your blog help the local blogging community?

From a personal standpoint, I nerd the place up pretty well. I also run and/or contribute to a few other local blogs, including Consuming Louisville (as their carnivorous correspondent and sci-fi/nerd columnist) and ConGlomeration.info, official blog of Louisville’s local sci-fi convention.

What are your hobbies and interests?

Wow, that’s a long list. I’m a sci-fi geek, as you may have surmised from previous answers. I read both prose and comic books with abandon. I’m a huge UofL fan, and former basketball and football season ticket-holder. I sit on the board of the Social Media Club of Louisville and occasionally advise and develop curriculum for social media marketing classes at the University of Louisville. I’m on the organizing committee for ConGlomeration, Louisville’s sci-fi convention. I’m also a professional writer/tech journalist/blogger looking to become a fiction author, so I’m a member of couple writing and reading clubs around town. And when I’m not busy doing all of that, I’m a husband and father.

What do you do when you are not writing online?

See above, with a little cooking and social media consulting thrown in.

Molly McMahan – www.thegirlinthemiddle.wordpress.com

Name: Molly McMahan

Blog URL: www.thegirlinthemiddle.wordpress.com

Where do you live?

Oldham County

How long have you been blogging?

Since 2004 (but on WordPress since 2008)

What blogging platform do you use? (WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, etc)?

WordPress.com and Blogger (LiveJournal in the “old days”)

Do you blog for business? for pleasure?

Both. I have a blog for my “day job” and my personal blog. Both are great fun to write because they cover such different things.

How does your blog help the local blogging community?

My personal blog will occasionally cover great places to eat or shop, but the main focus is probably personal humor and growth (aren’t they the same)-parenting type stuff. A mommy blog for a very non-”mommy” type.

What are your hobbies and interests?

Reading, spending time with my family, watching soccer-both my son’s games and Professional.

What do you do when you are not writing online?

Playing Chauffeur to the 15 yr old.