.Elaine Hopkins of Peoria Story (who STILL doesn’t allow commenting on her site) noted my recent expression of frustration:
Duh — blogging can be work.
It’s journalism when done right. That means covering events, interviewing people, finding information. That can be fun, but it’s also work, and few people can afford to pursue full time work without [...]

I’m still thinking about my post about Scott Adams belief that it’s an economic fact that online will eventually replace print media. There have a been many predictions about the demise of the newspaper. Some of the dates in those predictions have come and passed. But ad sales DO continue to decline. Newspapers DO continue [...]

Digital journalism guru Jeff Jarvis pronounced the death the old-fashioned news interview. You know what I mean: The reporter asks a few questions, uses what he/she wants and disregards the rest. The end result is owned by whatever mainstream media (MSM) organization employs the reporter. The Internet is changing all that, Jarvis says:
Interviews and articles [...]

A columnist for Editor & Publisher — the newspaper business trade rag — has deemed the loss of 5,000 newspaper jobs to be the top industry story of 2005. I would have picked the contunued growth of blogs as the media’s watchdogs at the top story, or perhaps the print media’s continued refusal to see [...]

It’s 11:43 p.m. and the only other Peoria blogger to even begin addressing the campaign finance reports was Polly Peoria, who focused on the at-large council races, because at the time of her post, neither Ardis nor Ransburg had filed. If my check of Peoria news media Websites is any education, no local media bothered [...]