UDJ Live

Starting today, we’re trying an experiment here at the Ukiah Daily Journal and we’d like you to be a part of it.
We’ve begun a new blog called “UDJ Live.” The idea here is that this blog won’t be like some of the other ones we already have going on our Web site like K.C. Meadows’ “Inside UDJ” and my “House of Burgess.”
Ideally, “UDJ Live” will be a collaborative effort with multiple contributions from a number of Ukiah Daily Journal authors.
Not only will it be a sort of preview of what we have coming before the paper is even printed, this will also allow us to “live blog” certain events as circumstances allow.
The first event we’re going to attempt to “live blog” will be Wednesday’s Ukiah City Council meeting. Since the Ukiah Civic Center has now been designated a “Wi-Fi Hotspot” we can now have high-speed internet access during the meetings. This will allow us to post the results of certain votes and quotes from discussions being held in real time.
This is where, you, the reader, comes into the equation. Our goal is to post on the “UDJ Live” blog as regularly as we can and we want you to make a habit of checking it. Make sure to leave comments on our entries. Send suggestions of what we could “live blog” in the future.
In short, if everything goes according to plan, “UDJ Live” will be an active, two-way discussion.
To get to our “UDJ Live” blog, you can either go to the “Blogs” page of our Web site, which can be accessed at www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/blogs, or you can visit it directly at www.insideudj.com/udjlive.
To alert you to when we’ll be “live blogging” certain event, our own Chris McCartney has created a great new icon we’ll try to put in the paper the day before it’s happening with the pertinent information. If you look at the icon you might wonder why it’s in the shape of a pair of headphones. Could “UDJ Live” one day become a downloadable podcast you can listen to on your computer or MP3 player?
The answer is: Who knows? We’ll just have to see what happens.