Thursday was some kind of day in the world in which we live.
Congressmen were bounced on one hand and praised on the other for tweeting during Obama's non-SOTU. The Oklahoman was basking in the warm glow of its greatest APSE haul in history.
And then there was the Rocky Mountain News.
Why choose today to launch a bigger, better blog. A day when one of the better metro newspaper bites the dust, leaving so many good people as well as some friends in its wake?
Maybe its because I got a lonely email today asking if Prayingforpapers.com had died. Maybe it's because I want to have a more of a say in the world of Web 2.0, since I am down in the mud every day trying to mash the square peg of newspaper journalism into the round hole of the web. There are so many "social media" experts on Twitter and Facebook who 30 days ago were "no-money-down real estate" experts.
There have been so many positives that I've experienced from actual social networking in the few months since I've changed jobs.
So this is another mashup for me - the blog equivalent of tweeting, live streaming and live chatting during the #ice storm of the media landscape.
They say that someone starts a blog every five minutes somewhere in the world.
Here's to social media, multimedia and ubermedia.
Here's to my five minutes.
