+newoldstock Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 Indeed it did. There's a very nice article in today's Merc (complete with sizable front page photo) about geocaching. The best part about it is that there's no bias. The article is informational, espouses the fun of the sport-hobby, and doesn't attempt the muck-racking anti-environmental thing that other media have delved into in the past. Good, clean, happy fun. Check it out if you get the chance. -barefoot Quote Link to comment
+hotfoot Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 quote:Originally posted by barefoot&twinkle:Indeed it did. There's a very nice article in today's Merc (complete with sizable front page photo) about geocaching. The best part about it is that there's no bias. The article is informational, espouses the fun of the sport-hobby, and doesn't attempt the muck-racking anti-environmental thing that other media have delved into in the past. Good, clean, happy fun. Check it out if you get the chance. -barefoot Thanks for the information, barefoot. I got ahold of the article and it is the most poitive that I have seen so far. Quote Link to comment
+Team Dralasites Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 We're the ones mentioned in the article. And we're glad that people in the geocaching community seem to approve of this one; we tried to make sure that geocaching was accurately represented in it. It was great that Mike, the reporter who wrote the story, kept us in the loop as the article was taking shape. I'd say it's a pretty well-written article, especially considering all the extra information we kept feeding him. We couldn't help it-- we love talking about geocaching. Colleen and Andrew Team Dralasites p.s. Here are links to the article: photo of front page: http://www.sportsflea.com/cgi-bin/snapshot/merc/front/page1a.cgi?2002/8/15 the article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3867564.htm Dralasites: biological, not geological. [This message was edited by Team Dralasites on August 16, 2002 at 04:01 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Team Dralasites Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 We're the ones mentioned in the article. And we're glad that people in the geocaching community seem to approve of this one; we tried to make sure that geocaching was accurately represented in it. It was great that Mike, the reporter who wrote the story, kept us in the loop as the article was taking shape. I'd say it's a pretty well-written article, especially considering all the extra information we kept feeding him. We couldn't help it-- we love talking about geocaching. Colleen and Andrew Team Dralasites p.s. Here are links to the article: photo of front page: http://www.sportsflea.com/cgi-bin/snapshot/merc/front/page1a.cgi?2002/8/15 the article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3867564.htm Dralasites: biological, not geological. [This message was edited by Team Dralasites on August 16, 2002 at 04:01 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 Good job C&A! Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+bykenut Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Great article! Inquiring minds want to know though - how it came about that the San Jose Mercury decided to do an article on geocaching? Also, did Mike, the reporter, go geocaching with Team Dralasites? Quote Link to comment
+bykenut Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Great article! Inquiring minds want to know though - how it came about that the San Jose Mercury decided to do an article on geocaching? Also, did Mike, the reporter, go geocaching with Team Dralasites? Quote Link to comment
+Team Dralasites Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 We have no idea why they wanted to do an article on geocaching. Random human interest story? And the reporter did not go geocaching with us. They sent their photographer instead, to follow us around while we went geocaching for the day. It was interesting, actually...that had to be our worst geocaching day ever. Out of the four or so that we went after, we only managed to find one. On a slightly different topic...barefoot and twinkle, we didn't know you were cichlid keepers. We have some Neolamprologus multifasciatus in our apartment. We don't have much room for anything else at the moment, unfortunately. Dralasites: biological, not geological. Quote Link to comment
+Team Dralasites Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 We have no idea why they wanted to do an article on geocaching. Random human interest story? And the reporter did not go geocaching with us. They sent their photographer instead, to follow us around while we went geocaching for the day. It was interesting, actually...that had to be our worst geocaching day ever. Out of the four or so that we went after, we only managed to find one. On a slightly different topic...barefoot and twinkle, we didn't know you were cichlid keepers. We have some Neolamprologus multifasciatus in our apartment. We don't have much room for anything else at the moment, unfortunately. Dralasites: biological, not geological. Quote Link to comment
+newoldstock Posted August 16, 2002 Author Share Posted August 16, 2002 We keep 'em, too! Altogether, we have three tanks and, in fact, just finished pruning down our heavily-planted, CO2-injected apisto tank. Watch out, Amano... *barefoot and twinkle* Quote Link to comment
+MartyFouts Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 quote:Originally posted by bykenut:Great article! Inquiring minds want to know though - how it came about that the San Jose Mercury decided to do an article on geocaching? Also, did Mike, the reporter, go geocaching with Team Dralasites? You might try asking Mike how he decided to do the article. He's responded to my email in the past. Also, I wanted to say, (in about the fouth place,) that the article has led to at least three people logging my caches and saying that reading the Merc is what got them into the hobby. If you really want to praise the article, send email to Mike at MAntonucci@sjmercury.com and let him know. You might even email the Merc and ask them to do a follow up story. Quote Link to comment
+MartyFouts Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 quote:Originally posted by bykenut:Great article! Inquiring minds want to know though - how it came about that the San Jose Mercury decided to do an article on geocaching? Also, did Mike, the reporter, go geocaching with Team Dralasites? You might try asking Mike how he decided to do the article. He's responded to my email in the past. Also, I wanted to say, (in about the fouth place,) that the article has led to at least three people logging my caches and saying that reading the Merc is what got them into the hobby. If you really want to praise the article, send email to Mike at MAntonucci@sjmercury.com and let him know. You might even email the Merc and ask them to do a follow up story. Quote Link to comment
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