About Iditablog

Founded in 2005 by Josh Rogers Iditablog.com has been on the trail covering the Iditarod and other major races, using innovative ways to communicate stories and updates. We’re constantly taking advantage of new-media forms including twitter, written blog updates, audio podcasts, live-on-site streaming radio broadcasts and video highlights. Portions of our audio coverage have also been inserted into Iditarod television productions by the Versus network. We’ve seen tremendous growth in the last 5 years, in March 2009 alone we had over a million visitors to the site and our podcasts were downloaded over 20,000 times.

My name is Josh Rogers, I was born in Alaska and lived there until I was in elementary school when my family moved to Washington State. Some of my fondest memories as a child growing up in both Nome and Anchorage was going and seeing the Iditarod every year when it would come through our home town.

A number of years back my wife and I moved from the Seattle area, back up to Nome – it was like a homecoming. I worked on-air at radio station KICY and one of the highlights of my job there was the opportunity I had to cover the Iditarod. The days spent in remote Western Alaska checkpoint villages, and interviewing mushers along the trail helped me get back in-touch with my long lost childhood “Alaska side.”

So, here we are more than five Iditarod’s later and instead of a Nome radio station, I cover the race for Iditablog. Its gotten to be a lot bigger of a production than I would have ever expected but I’m glad that we’ve been so well received and we love hearing back from our visitors.

Feedback is the pulse of our operation here, this is a two way conversation. Please contact me by posting a comment on one of the posts, or feel free to (email me)