New bloggers on the way
For you folks who like the more free wheeling world of the blogosphere we have a couple of new entries for you to check out during the week. The first is Crime and Puzzlement by our police and courts reporter Ben Brown. I have been encouraging Ben to use a blog to report on all the weird and interesting stuff he sees and hears on police blotters and in the courthouse that never make it into the pages of the Daily Journal. Reporters at newspapers have always had lots of newsroom conversations about the odd things or frankly funny things that happen in the world of crime and now there's this great immediate way of passing them on to you. I predict that Ben's blog will be well-read.
Also coming soon is a blog by our sports editor Anthony Dion. Anthony has been keeping his nose to the grindstone getting to know our community and the sports world here and so has not had time until now to think about blogging, but he's ready to give it a try.
And you will see that the folks that are bringing you Diary of A Play in our Sunday editions will be blogging about their experiences putting on the latest Ukiah Players Theatre production.
Blogging, as I have found out, isn't an easy thing to do. It requires at least - and perhaps more - time than a regular column does, although the time is taken up in frequency as opposed to polish.
The Internet world continues to change so fast that already we're hearing that blogging is already old hat and on the downslide. I think that may be in part because there are so many of them now that people are tired of sifting through them and also that so many of them aren't informative or interesting so people get turned off.
Well, I don't think we'll get very overcrowded with blogs here at the Daily Journal, so if you have a theme for a blog that you think would be interesting, AND you're willing to put the time in to blog regularly, let me know and perhaps we'll host one here for you too. Email me at udjkcm@pacific.net.