There's still hope

Why did it take so long for newspapers to dump stock tables
Ryan Sholin's J-School Blog
More observations from the "Who Needs Ink?" panel discussion:

Dan Gillmor: Citizen Journalism doesn't mean that everyone's a journalist; it means that some people "from time to time, commit an act of journalism."

Jerry Ceppos: "Why shouldn’t every newspaper be famous for something? When you try to cover everything, you cover nothing very well."

Joan Walsh: Yesterday’s wire stories? Ditch 'em. Everyone read those online last night. --

From Romanesko

Fire at the refinery

They say it's just a gas release, but I've never seen a plume that big before.

Klebold?

It's time for a 5 o'clock surprise.

He's always so negative

Hey, what’s with that pod rows of hell blog? Even theaesthetic.com is updated more frequently.

-- Abe Lincoln

Who won the NCAA pool?

Hey, what time is it?

CNS reports that Californians passed Proposition 215 in 1996, legalizing the use of medical marijuana. In 2003, the state Legislature passed SB 420 to clarify the proposition.

Whatever happened to the Animanl Control guy?

Ed Boks, general manager of city animal
services in Los Angeles, is a blogger himself and apparently hates the Animal Defense League.

ZahniserObserved.com

This place is not LAobserved. Noticed a call in our media
log from David Vaniser. Made appropriate corrections.

St. Eligius

The wife no longer wants to drop me off at my office, a five minute drive past her office.
Instead she parks at her place and I have to walk. On
the positive side, happened upon a sad little "Medical
Walk of Fame" with hand prints and shoe prints in the
side walk feather David Morse and Ed Begley of St.
Elsewhere and two people from Ben Casey.

Where's Josh?

-- Amy Alkon tracks down, calls and demands fifty
bucks from a guy who signed her up for a ton of bogus
email because he was mad at her anti-SUV rants.