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  • Steve Convington, left, walks by Harold King, rights, operator of the now-defunct Watercooler website, in 2007. Convington sued King and 100 others who posted on the site alleging libel and invasion of privacy. The lawsuit was later dismissed. File Photo by Kevin Harvison

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  • Hal King is pictured in the file photo. King recently closed his website called the McAlester Watercooler. File Photo by Kevin Harvison

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January 19, 2012

Blog site terminated

By Jeanne LeFlore Staff Writer

McALESTER — The  McAlester Watercooler blog is gone. Visitors to the site will find a notice “The Watercooler is dead.”

“The original intention was a blogsite requiring LESS support effort -- this site does not do that ... in fact its much more work than I was doing before,” these are the last words on the McAlester Watercooler site.

Hal King, 63, the owner of the now-defunct site said he began the blog as a connection point for others to work out issues,

“I wanted to help get people out of cliques and get them to work together,” he said. On site his King would post city council agendas and city councilman Steve Harrison’s newsletter on the site as well as links to popular news stories for subscribed bloggers to comment upon.

Overtime, King admits, the blog evolved into something much different than he intended. 

 

For more on this story, see the print edition of the McAlester News-Capital, click or find the Smart Edition button at the top left side of our home page.

Contact Jeanne LeFlore at jleflore@mcalesternews.com

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