Digesting the news

With storms, speaking engagements, spring break and life getting in the way, it's been a few days since I blogged.

And then came Monday, with the news of closing of the Ann Arbor News and the shrinking of other papers in the Booth chain to three-day print publications.

Add that to the death of the P-I and the ripples from the Rocky and my brain has been considering the dark cloud.

You see, I nearly was the sports editor of the Ann Arbor News.

And in another "For Want of a Nail"* alternate timeline, I would have been the one facing a life of no income, three kids and a punch in the gut.

I still alive and thinking.

More soon ...

FOOTNOTES
* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail

Welcome to mkokc.com

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.