Thursday, August 14

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SoFlo: NEWSPAPER UPDATES - (4#) -

The Condition Our Condition Is In . . .

Eyeballing the Competition: Steve Johnson, the new tech blogger at the Chicago Tribune reviews the new
PuffToast Chicago.

"There’s no reason the Tribune, in 2008, shouldn’t be offering its online readers a Chicago page packed with the most interesting and important local news, no matter which outlet is reporting it."

Is he naive or what?

# Got any ideas about how the News should be delivered? The Knight Foundation has set up a website environment to kick them around in. It's called the News Challenge Garage.

# McClatchy is implementing a one-year wage freeze.

# A Sneak Preview of the new SF Sun-Sentinel graphic design via Charles Apple. And there are comments attached. The makeover is scheduled to debut this Sunday.

+ The folks at Blogger have made a few little changes, and some of this apparatus is not working responsively right now. I suspect there is a connection between their tinkering and the current glitches, which I hope will be short-lived.

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