… Ok, I just deleted a whole bunch of stuff I typed because it was simplistic and obvious. I’ll be back when I have something more intelligent to say.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Last things first, yeah the RT comments are increasingly silly when nothing’s added to the RT. I’ve got a switch I can flip to turn those off, while still bringing in the tweets that are more than just a button-pushing exercise. And I will.

Newspapers staffed of 1, 3, and 10? Absolutely. At a previous job, I worked for a company that owned hundreds of dailies and weeklies, and there was a staff of 1 behind a twice-weekly in a town of about 7,000 in Missouri, staffs of 3 all over the place in slightly larger towns, and 10 — well, 10 is a big staff by those standards!

Re: Complicated: I think the assumption I’m railing against here is that all newspapers are somehow in the exact same boat going in the same direction, and the same evasive actions will somehow keep them from sinking when they hit the miles-wide glacier that they’re already well on top of.

Here’s me in a similar rant about 9 months ago.

But I wonder if you’re not starting to fall into the “it’s a lot more complicated than you think” trap that so many newspaper people fall into, when it just really is not THAT complicated?

I also wonder what you think about all of this?

Also, I wonder what will happen to this comment — left on your blog — among the 23 1-click re-tweets that apparently it will have to compete with?