Harness
racing news website Harnesslink.com, launches social blogging platform
to spread ideas and improve the declining sport of harness racing
Auckland, NZ (PRWEB) February 29, 2008 -- Harnesslink,
a global harness racing website, today launched an online blogging
system to further discussion and influence leaders within the ailing
harness racing industry.
Blogging will save America, says political activist John Jay Hooker --
"the high and the mighty will have to listen to the people and the blog
is going to make that possible."
Harnesslink has a somewhat less ambitious goal -- that the same can be achieved for the lackluster sport of harness racing.
Harnesslink has developed a blogging platform appropriately named Harness Racing Blog (http://www.harnessracingblog.com)
which allows anybody to voice there opinions by creating a blog. A blog
is simply an online diary which enables any person to communicate
online.
Harnesslink hopes its new initiative will empower supporters and help to spread new ideas in the slow-paced industry.
Once commanding crowds of thousands, in recent years many racetracks
have experienced deteriorating visitor numbers, betting and general
enthusiasm.
Problems are prolific; competition from other spheres is one major
hurdle. Internet poker has pilfered many customers, and marketing
successes in comparatively new sports like Nascar have taken their
toll.
Harnesslink editor Matt Smith, a New Zealander, is perplexed.
"If people can sit all day and watch cars go round a track, surely
someone can come up with a way to make harness racing more appealing to
the general public."
One early adopter is Kimberly Rinker, herself a journalist and winner
of the prestigious 2007 Hervey Award which honors the best of harness
racing journalism. On her blog, Rinker says she aims to present
viewpoints and notations from a variety of guest journalists from the
North American harness racing community.
Smith hopes many will follow Rinker's initiative.
"There are an amazing number of intelligent and passionate fans out
there who feel something needs to change, but who feel silenced by
those in control. We want to give them a voice," he said.
"Heck, if blogging can save democracy surely something can be done to save the trots."
About Harnesslink
Harnesslink.com has grown to become the major destination for harness
racing world-wide. Harnesslink offers the largest database of harness
racing news stories online approaching 60,000.
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