Today marks the fourth month since Ozarks Unbound went live and I’m pretty happy with the result. It’s probably an apt moment for reflection – what the self-helpers call “taking stock”. Here it goes. First, I’ve learned much more than I ever expected about coding and...

Ozarks Unbound has always been an experiment for me. It’s a way to stay in the area, do what I love through writing, hopefully contribute an editorial voice in the community and someday make a living. Helping others get their voice out there is critical as well to my experiment. My assumption is...

I skipped out on last week’s update. I’m two days late on this one. What can I say? It’s less laziness and more that I didn’t feel like I had much to tell. This week though features a little flare up over President Barack Obama’s speech to Fayetteville schoolchildren, another...

Migration is never easy. It wasn’t easy for those early humans crossing the Bering Strait into North America. It was especially hard for the oppressed and repressed Puritans who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to form the first British colonies on the eastern seaboard. So to is migrating from one internet...

Anxiety always struck me nine weeks into a semester during junior high. It was performance evaluation time. A letter would arrive in the mail from the school if you were doing poorly in class, outlining for your parents your lackluster performance. No letter was sent if you were doing well in class. Sometimes...

By Christopher Spencer Ozarks Unbound Today marks our two-month anniversary at Ozarks Unbound. We are still evolving, still developing and still looking for interesting stories to tell, but I continue to be pleased with where are now. I hope everyone likes the new design that goes live at some point...

By Christopher Spencer Ozarks Unbound Finally got a few stories written this week. I was able to make it to a discussion of light rail that was very well attended. I also got a chance to finish a profile on Fayetteville artist Basil Seymour-Davies. You can expect more original content in the near future....

By Christopher SpencerOzarks Unbound This is the six-week mark for Ozarks Unbound. Thanks to all who have read the stories we’ve written and welcome to anyone new checking out our site for the first time. Please say hello to Kyle Kellams, news director at KUAF, who is leading this week’s...

By Christopher Spencer Ozarks Unbound Here we are. Week Five begins today and I think the content bar keeps rising. Things are shaping up well. We’re continuing to experiment. We want to see what works and cast aside that which doesn’t. I’ve noticed in looking at the site’s statistics...

By Christopher SpencerOzarks Unbound When we launched this experiment a month ago, I had no idea what to expect. I knew I wanted to continue to write and report and work with co-owner Greg Leding to create a forum for unique voices to be heard. I feel like that’s happening and I’m glad to...