Boy, what a week to schedule a vacation!
Jay Rosen writes more about our efforts here to improve our Web presence, tear down the walls between the newspaper and the community, listen to and learn from our readers, and get more voices in the paper and online. If you've not gone there, go.
Read more discussion at Ed Cone, Greensboro is Talking, Billy the Blogging Poet, Chewie, Patrick Eakes, Gate City, and David Hoggard, among others. (Hogg gave the best advice in a comment on a site where the debate was getting testy: "Let's all go have a beer.")
I worry about the heightened expectations implied in all the discussion and the subsequent smackdown if we fall short. We will inevitably disappoint some who want us to go further or who think our resources are unlimited.
We aren't looking to change the world. We simply want to get better. I wrote about it Dec. 1 when I paraphrased Mark Glaser in stating the sort of newspaper we strive to be: "Creating new content. Serving the public and allowing the public to serve journalism. Building a new way of doing smart, citizen journalism. More transparency. News as a conversation."
OK. I got that out of my system. It's time to support the Guilford County economy and buy some Christmas presents. Meanwhile, go to The Lex Files to read his charge and leave a suggestion.