To me, there is such depth on nearly any topic you want through many bloggers -- and fast! Last fall I lost a close friend in a rafting accident in Ecuador, and most of the immediate news came from a blogger there. I'm following the smart grid closely here in Boulder, but realizing how much is going on around the world in that arena from bloggers.

I was very surprised, and blogged about it briefly, that the Bolder Boulder race today was not live on TV, nor could I find it on radio (maybe I just could not locate it.)

Race organizers chose Fox, and they will do a tape delay on TV. I walked the course, then got home hoping to see the elites race.

After all, yesterday I watched the mars landing live on NasaTV on my laptop. Talk about a business opportunity for someone to stream the Bolder Boulder live!......more immediate news is really what it's all about.

I think the Bolder Boulder screwed up by switching their live coverage to a delayed viewing on Fox.....what do others think?

I agree with you that there might be a better name for Citizen Journalism, but whatever it is, newspapers have to become much better at involving their readers beyond the typical letter to the editor. More need to integrate more robust comment tools, since already, that is becoming a very good way to generate traffic into their sites. I've also been watching the Examiner's web sites, particularly in Denver, where Anschutz is attempting to create a virtual newspaper presence, perhaps testing the waters for an actual print product. Maybe I missed it, but even your Editor and Publisher column does not have a good comment tool, just a link to send a letter to the editor. So here is the magazine covering the newspaper industry, already lagging the community-building of most blogs.

As a Colorado journalist, I can tell you that companies that insist they are in a "stealth" mode but then frequently blog about their business plan and put up a Web site are very much in the view of reporters looking to write about new tech ventures. As former editor of the Boulder County Business Report, which keeps track of local tech ventures, we have called on many businesses that tell our writers, "We can't talk right now, we are in stealth mode...." As an editor that expects a story once it is assigned, our response was simple. "That's OK, but we are going to report about your company from all of the information you have on your Web site and from whatever others in the tech community will tell us about you." Once a company realizes a story will indeed be going in the paper, they typically are a little more open in talking to the press.

Simple rule, once you're up on the Web, expect media to call, and you should be willing to talk as much as possible. Count on the fact that your competitors or anyone else in your space will be more than happy to talk about you.