Well, I check the Miami Herald, and there's a story about a millionaire dog buying Stallone's home. It was a weird story I found in the local section. The next day it hit the wires. And then the next day they found out it was bogus. In a sense, you're creating your own newspaper, like a wire editor.
Newspapers pay people full-time salaries to do that sort of thing.
With a weblog you get someone's personal perspective. With a good log, you get to know the person behind it a little bit, the person's taste, the person's attitude toward society. You've been in newspapers since the '70s. The one thing I've found, and maybe it's because I've changed markets, is that people are less engaged with their daily newspapers and more engaged with broadcasting. I mentioned in Milwaukee the VCR repairman would recognize my byline.