Fred First, the de facto leader of Floyd County’s blogging community, is leaving the neighborhood.

No, Fred is not leaving Floyd County. Fred is leaving our web servers, where we have hosted Fragments from Floyd for the past two years. Fred moved his popular blog to our servers after outgrowing his previous home. Now he’s outgrown our home and is moving on to a new hosting location with Sean Pecor along with a new blogging platform (Blogger)

Fred’s departure comes at a time when I’m taking a second look at the whole world of blogging. Like many journalists, I’ve always been skeptical of blogs and the intentions of bloggers. Too many of them appear to be frustrated writers who use blogs to bombard the world with words and opinions that could not be published elsewhere.