{"id":5933,"date":"2009-03-02T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2009-03-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:00:00","slug":"the-reporter-behind-shop-eat-surfcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5933","title":{"rendered":"The Reporter Behind Shop-Eat-Surf.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1668jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1668jpg.jpeg','popup','width=238,height=320,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/1668-tm.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1668.Jpg\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/malakye.com\/asp\/front\/CMSPage.asp?TYP_ID=1&amp;ID=1895\" target=\"_blank\">Malakye.com<\/a><\/strong>, the action sports job site that is difficult to pronounce and even more difficult to spell has an interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop-eat-surf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shop-Eat-Surf.com<\/a><\/strong> founder <strong>Tiffany Montgomery<\/strong> in their Industry Profile section. Here&#8217;s a little bit of the story behind the site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The site started as an experiment. Given the cutbacks at newspapers and in journalism in general, I thought there was room for a news site. Originally, I planned to write about the business of retail, the business of restaurants and the business of the surf industry based in Orange County \u2013 basically, what I covered in my last reporting beat at the paper. That\u2019s why the site has a strange name. . . . The surf and larger action sports industry was so responsive from the get go, I quickly dropped the other topics. And, I liked the stories in the surf industry the best. I still am amazed that this group of people with basically no business experience was able to build a globally influential industry by following their passion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Montgomery is obviously an avid and skilled reporter who keeps very close tabs on what goes on behind Orange County&#8217;s Velcro Curtain. The site is updated hourly and is a much needed source for industry news. She does it all so politely and professionally, however, that we rarely find anything compelling to read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/malakye.com\/asp\/front\/CMSPage.asp?TYP_ID=1&amp;ID=1895\" target=\"_blank\">Malakye.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malakye.com, the action sports job site that is difficult to pronounce and even more difficult to spell has an interview with Shop-Eat-Surf.com founder Tiffany Montgomery in their Industry Profile section. Here&#8217;s a little bit of the story behind the site: The site started as an experiment. Given the cutbacks at newspapers and in journalism in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}