Greetings!

Shameless plug here:

I was interviewed for our local paper regarding our website, 805vigilantes.com.

I went from doing the website and marketing to Editor of the site, and I get to write editorials aside from overseeing the content. We were interviewed along with our friends at CrimeStoppers and the Oxnard Police Department, who I get to work with in order for our site to be successful.

The interview is here:

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/mar/23/web-sites-help-ventura-county-law-enforcement/

(The funny and ironic thing about this interview is that my recent editorial piece recently called out the Ventura County Star for their lack of ethics and conflict of interest, which is the most popular post on our site at the moment.

I was also banned from their site in 2007. The other contributor to our blog was banned in 2008.

I read the paper, if only for information on criminal cases, but isn't that funny?)



Update
When I first wrote about the conflict of interest between the Star and one of their lawyers, I was "warned" that I should take the editorial down because they might not run the interview and that my website needed the publicity.

My reply?

"I was banned from posting on the Star's website, I'll be damned if I'm going to be censored on my own blog."

I didn't back down, and needless to say, they still ran the interview.
My editorial:
http://805vigilantes.blogspot.com/2009/03/lack-of-ethics-ventura-county-star.html

Moral of the story

Do what is right, not what is easy!