The free conference on blogging was the South Sound Technology Conference, The Blogging Boom, How Journalism, Private Enterprise, Parenting and Civic Action have changed.

Pogo once featured sleuths tracking through the swamp. They worked with chihuahuas, not bloodhounds, because bloodhounds were so difficult to control. I was reminded of this when a panel member admitted, "more eyes / more errors" as she described "distributive reporting" - with technology, newsrooms can now search more diligently.