What's old is new again

So the boss sent me out this morning to cover Obama at a Beaverton software company. I was not to write a story in the conventional sense. I was to "blog" the event -- meaning writing a string of at-the-moment briefs to give readers the feel of being on the scene. I could only laugh ... it's just like what we did at UPI during national political conventions, when Arnie Sawislak would sit at the UPI desk on the podium and write a "running" of the convention, meaning a moment-by-moment, telegraphy color story. Fortunately, thanks to dear old Blogger, I have had a little practice lately with the whole blog thing, and the "tool" we use for the newspaper isn't terribly different -- except that it balked at my photos (probably with good reason). Otherwise, I filed 12 times, and it was a blast. The wave of the future, my friends. ...