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Anybody know anybody who’s going to be able to watch Al Gore’s Current TV, set to launch tomorrow evening? Website says Joel Hyatt is the CEO. So many things I don’t know (didn’t know).

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Current TV anyone?

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Anybody know anybody who’s going to be able to watch Al Gore’s Current TV, set to launch tomorrow evening? Website says Joel Hyatt is the CEO. So many things I don’t know (didn’t know).

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Sunday on Saturday

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I know there must be a simple answer to this question, but I don’t know what it is: Why is it that in Connecticut, certain portions of the New York Times Sunday edition arrive on Saturday, and the rest arrives on Sunday? Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled. Breaking up that behemoth makes it easier for me to read more of it. But still – how do they choose? Sunday Arts and Leisure came yesterday, but not Sunday Styles. No Week in Review either – will one more day really change the whole week? Anyone know?

Thanks to this time warp experience (in addition to the time warp I’m already experiencing by not wearing a watch and being on vacation), I read all of Richard Posner’s lengthy essay in the book review, “Bad News.” In it, he offers his description of the state of conventional news media and everything else that isn’t conventional – basically, blogs. And yet, after over 4500 words of text, Judge Posner concludes,

So when all the pluses and minuses of the impact of technological and economic change on the news media are toted up and compared, maybe there isn’t much to fret about.

Frankly, I agree. Not that change and shifts aren’t worrisome and stressful. Not that elements who feel shutdown shouldn’t fight back. Not that inequities don’t exist and cause the consumer (the people who should want to know what’s going on, in a – ugh – fair and balanced way) to be perplexed and not so well informed.

But rather, it’s the march of time, progress and our own ambitions and pursuits. I’m not sure what Judge Posner’s essay accomplishes except to air musings even I’ve had with myself, and most likely those bloggers who’ve been at it way longer than me (not too hard to find them) have been talking about for a long time too. I’m not sure that the Book Review’s audience is going to be anyone outside the choir or the falling asleep audience listening to the choir, but I’m not the kind of person who will outright say that the space was wasted either. (Unless some comments here suggest otherwise…)

Today, I have to say that I love the New Haven Register, not because I can fold up even the Sunday version and hide it in my purse – so slim is it, but because I love the Yale Child Study Center. I used to dream of working in a think tank or for an agency like the Child Study Center (partly because I monitored grants that came into it through the Yale Development Office and those grants were fascinating). I’m not doing either now, but following the small schools reform effort as a journalistic storyteller in Ohio comes close. If you’re interested in education, check out this article on Dr. James Comer and his work. He’s been trying to place child development at the top of the list of education concerns for 30 years now.

The negative pregnant (or is it the pregnant negative?) of reading news in other papers for more than a week is that when I return to Cleveland, I’m going to have missed the PD for seven days. But having the NE Ohio blogs at my fingertips through www.brewedfreshdaily.com and other sites helps keep me not quite so out of it. I’m sorry that the PD’s website can be so difficult to navigate, otherwise I’d spend some time on it’s front page, if it really had a semblance of a front page the way the Times or even the NH Register has. I hate dissing it like that – but most folks I know who’ve ever visited the PD site feels similar (let’s say, at least ten people). Can anyone point me to someone’s post somewhere that explains why it is that the PD’s web presence is what it is (or isn’t)? I just feel too far out and new to know. (Maybe I should just go ask the PD.)

My visits with friends old and new yesterday were lovely. Later today, I’ll be hosting, in Connecticut, some Cleveland area friends who’ve just moved here (yesterday to be exact). I figured that I had to offer up my parents home as a place of respite after a family of four moves from Ohio to CT in a day. When I moved from CT to Ohio, my U-Haul lost its power steering an hour into New York, I sheered off the carport-like top of a guest unloading area at a Cleveland hotel and, when I went to what was supposed to be my new abode in Coventry? I found no floors, no walls and no roommates.

You can guess that everything worked out because seventeen years later, I’m still in town.

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Current TV anyone?

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Sunday on Saturday

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I know there must be a simple answer to this question, but I don’t know what it is: Why is it that in Connecticut, certain portions of the New York Times Sunday edition arrive on Saturday, and the rest arrives on Sunday? Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled. Breaking up that behemoth makes it easier for me to read more of it. But still – how do they choose? Sunday Arts and Leisure came yesterday, but not Sunday Styles. No Week in Review either – will one more day really change the whole week? Anyone know?

Thanks to this time warp experience (in addition to the time warp I’m already experiencing by not wearing a watch and being on vacation), I read all of Richard Posner’s lengthy essay in the book review, “Bad News.” In it, he offers his description of the state of conventional news media and everything else that isn’t conventional – basically, blogs. And yet, after over 4500 words of text, Judge Posner concludes,

So when all the pluses and minuses of the impact of technological and economic change on the news media are toted up and compared, maybe there isn’t much to fret about.

Frankly, I agree. Not that change and shifts aren’t worrisome and stressful. Not that elements who feel shutdown shouldn’t fight back. Not that inequities don’t exist and cause the consumer (the people who should want to know what’s going on, in a – ugh – fair and balanced way) to be perplexed and not so well informed.

But rather, it’s the march of time, progress and our own ambitions and pursuits. I’m not sure what Judge Posner’s essay accomplishes except to air musings even I’ve had with myself, and most likely those bloggers who’ve been at it way longer than me (not too hard to find them) have been talking about for a long time too. I’m not sure that the Book Review’s audience is going to be anyone outside the choir or the falling asleep audience listening to the choir, but I’m not the kind of person who will outright say that the space was wasted either. (Unless some comments here suggest otherwise…)

Today, I have to say that I love the New Haven Register, not because I can fold up even the Sunday version and hide it in my purse – so slim is it, but because I love the Yale Child Study Center. I used to dream of working in a think tank or for an agency like the Child Study Center (partly because I monitored grants that came into it through the Yale Development Office and those grants were fascinating). I’m not doing either now, but following the small schools reform effort as a journalistic storyteller in Ohio comes close. If you’re interested in education, check out this article on Dr. James Comer and his work. He’s been trying to place child development at the top of the list of education concerns for 30 years now.

The negative pregnant (or is it the pregnant negative?) of reading news in other papers for more than a week is that when I return to Cleveland, I’m going to have missed the PD for seven days. But having the NE Ohio blogs at my fingertips through www.brewedfreshdaily.com and other sites helps keep me not quite so out of it. I’m sorry that the PD’s website can be so difficult to navigate, otherwise I’d spend some time on it’s front page, if it really had a semblance of a front page the way the Times or even the NH Register has. I hate dissing it like that – but most folks I know who’ve ever visited the PD site feels similar (let’s say, at least ten people). Can anyone point me to someone’s post somewhere that explains why it is that the PD’s web presence is what it is (or isn’t)? I just feel too far out and new to know. (Maybe I should just go ask the PD.)

My visits with friends old and new yesterday were lovely. Later today, I’ll be hosting, in Connecticut, some Cleveland area friends who’ve just moved here (yesterday to be exact). I figured that I had to offer up my parents home as a place of respite after a family of four moves from Ohio to CT in a day. When I moved from CT to Ohio, my U-Haul lost its power steering an hour into New York, I sheered off the carport-like top of a guest unloading area at a Cleveland hotel and, when I went to what was supposed to be my new abode in Coventry? I found no floors, no walls and no roommates.

You can guess that everything worked out because seventeen years later, I’m still in town.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:13 am July 31st, 2005 in Politics | 2 Comments 

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Sunday on Saturday

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I know there must be a simple answer to this question, but I don’t know what it is: Why is it that in Connecticut, certain portions of the New York Times Sunday edition arrive on Saturday, and the rest arrives on Sunday? Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled. Breaking up that behemoth makes it easier for me to read more of it. But still – how do they choose? Sunday Arts and Leisure came yesterday, but not Sunday Styles. No Week in Review either – will one more day really change the whole week? Anyone know?

Thanks to this time warp experience (in addition to the time warp I’m already experiencing by not wearing a watch and being on vacation), I read all of Richard Posner’s lengthy essay in the book review, “Bad News.” In it, he offers his description of the state of conventional news media and everything else that isn’t conventional – basically, blogs. And yet, after over 4500 words of text, Judge Posner concludes,

So when all the pluses and minuses of the impact of technological and economic change on the news media are toted up and compared, maybe there isn’t much to fret about.

Frankly, I agree. Not that change and shifts aren’t worrisome and stressful. Not that elements who feel shutdown shouldn’t fight back. Not that inequities don’t exist and cause the consumer (the people who should want to know what’s going on, in a – ugh – fair and balanced way) to be perplexed and not so well informed.

But rather, it’s the march of time, progress and our own ambitions and pursuits. I’m not sure what Judge Posner’s essay accomplishes except to air musings even I’ve had with myself, and most likely those bloggers who’ve been at it way longer than me (not too hard to find them) have been talking about for a long time too. I’m not sure that the Book Review’s audience is going to be anyone outside the choir or the falling asleep audience listening to the choir, but I’m not the kind of person who will outright say that the space was wasted either. (Unless some comments here suggest otherwise…)

Today, I have to say that I love the New Haven Register, not because I can fold up even the Sunday version and hide it in my purse – so slim is it, but because I love the Yale Child Study Center. I used to dream of working in a think tank or for an agency like the Child Study Center (partly because I monitored grants that came into it through the Yale Development Office and those grants were fascinating). I’m not doing either now, but following the small schools reform effort as a journalistic storyteller in Ohio comes close. If you’re interested in education, check out this article on Dr. James Comer and his work. He’s been trying to place child development at the top of the list of education concerns for 30 years now.

The negative pregnant (or is it the pregnant negative?) of reading news in other papers for more than a week is that when I return to Cleveland, I’m going to have missed the PD for seven days. But having the NE Ohio blogs at my fingertips through www.brewedfreshdaily.com and other sites helps keep me not quite so out of it. I’m sorry that the PD’s website can be so difficult to navigate, otherwise I’d spend some time on it’s front page, if it really had a semblance of a front page the way the Times or even the NH Register has. I hate dissing it like that – but most folks I know who’ve ever visited the PD site feels similar (let’s say, at least ten people). Can anyone point me to someone’s post somewhere that explains why it is that the PD’s web presence is what it is (or isn’t)? I just feel too far out and new to know. (Maybe I should just go ask the PD.)

My visits with friends old and new yesterday were lovely. Later today, I’ll be hosting, in Connecticut, some Cleveland area friends who’ve just moved here (yesterday to be exact). I figured that I had to offer up my parents home as a place of respite after a family of four moves from Ohio to CT in a day. When I moved from CT to Ohio, my U-Haul lost its power steering an hour into New York, I sheered off the carport-like top of a guest unloading area at a Cleveland hotel and, when I went to what was supposed to be my new abode in Coventry? I found no floors, no walls and no roommates.

You can guess that everything worked out because seventeen years later, I’m still in town.

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