Colorado paper blogs letters to editor

Stephen,

Welcome to Boulder, enjoy the sunshine and snow. :)

Another great thing the Camera does is publish great blog posts from local bloggers into their weekly Business Plus section under The Final Word.

Welcome to Colorado! You can probably thank Dave Taylor for that wisdom, I think he might have the ear of some of the people at the Daily Camera.

Hey Stephen! You're in our town. Drop me a note and let's grab a cup of tea tomorrow if you're still around! Use the contact form on my intuitive.com site, please.

Hey, sorry I left Boulder the same day I wrote that blog post. Next time I'll make plans and try to stay longer, preferably during a season where bikes don't need snow tires.

Hey Stephen -- Greetings from yet another Boulderite.

I was just writing a post for the Poynter Institute's group weblog E-Media Tidbits about letters blogs, and I came across your post. Yes, I love that the Camera has started posting this blog, and I know several people who read it. I'm encouraging more news organizations to do this.

I think, though, that most of the letters blogs I've seen miss some pretty obvious and engaging strategies that would make better use of online media. I've just covered those in this posting:

"Letters Blogs: Your Take?"
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=118751

I'd love to hear what you think about taking this approach further.

- Amy Gahran
Editor, E-Media Tidbits

I should give credit where it's due. I stole the virtual-editorial page idea from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which does the VEB daily rather than weekly and solicits input on many topics rather than one.

Clint Talbott,
editor of the editorial page
Daily Camera

McCain's choice for Vice President is no more of an unknown with no experience than Americans have had to choose from in past Novembers. Obama's experience is limited to less than 4 years as Senator. He has had little impact on domestic or international events. He is still an unknown. He often says one thing and then reverses. Obama chose a running mate who in 2002 as member of the Foriegn Relations Committee said Saddam Hussein is a threat to national security and has to be eliminated. President Bush took all the Joe Bidens who voted for War in Irag and the rest of us into a total disaster based on lies and incompetence. That was the vote of the expienced Washington politicians. George Bush had 1 1/2 terms as Governor as his experience. No foreign policy background. He brought in a cast of fools to lead us to the sad state of Post-Clinton years of bad economy [for all but the wealthy] and war.
Eisenhower, Reagan and Clinton are the only Post-WWII presidents to have
a good economy and no war. Non of those three had more than Governor expierience. A President Palin, if that happened, could have the success of
Eisenhower-Reagan-Clinton or could be a Carter-Bush type failure. She's an unknown just like Joe Biden would be in the number 2 spot. Joes Biden has been in Washington since 1973. If his experience was ever going to help America in troubled times, it would have already happened. Palin is dead even with McCain, Obama and Biden as far as her potential to serve America well.
She'll get my vote along with John McCain as the only HOPE in November to turn around the current cluster #%@& in Washington of politics as usual.
Rick Sellers