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About the Blog
Fang’s Bites began innocently in 2005 when Kenneth Fang, a frustrated former radio news reporter, was looking for an outlet for his sports opinions. After realizing that his blog had no readership, he decided to focus on the sports media, but after several starts and stops, he stopped blogging and left the account open.
For two years, the blog was hit by various spammers, but every once in a while, Ken would check to see if the account was still open, which it surprisingly was.
Then on May 2, 2007, Ken suddenly received inspiration to start Fang’s Bites anew. He decided to blog every day to see if people would start reading and after discovering that he had at least ten regular visitors, he kept blogging. First, he was happy with 100 visitors, but as the blog grew, so did the hits. Eventually, the blog has grown to 2,500 unique hits each day and to over a million total hits.
As the years have progressed, Fang’s Bites has grown to be respected by the sports media as a destination for linkage, press releases, critiques and the latest news on The Amazing Race.
Ken is single and lives in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. A former award-winning radio news reporter, he provides his unique insight on sports radio and television whenever he can. He does not blog in the basement except during the summer when he tries to escape the humidity and mosquitoes.
In addition to his own site, Ken also blogs at Boston Sports Media Watch and at Press Coverage, where blogging superstar Dan Levy allows him to contribute, but not make any decisions that could endanger the site.
On January 22, 2010, Fang’s Bites moved from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site. The jury is out on whether this move will be successful.
Ken is available for interviews to provide his perspective on the sports media and can be reached at kzf1@fangsbites.com. He is also on Twitter and Facebook, but not on MySpace or Linked In. Ken does have a cell phone, but likes to use his iPhone to check his e-mail and Twitter accounts, listen to Dan Patrick and play with a Lightsaber app rather than for what the phone was originally intended.
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