In yesterday’s Northfield News, this opinion piece by the paper’s editorial team: Officials extend thoughts to the Web. Some excerpts:
There are other elected officials around the state using the web as a communication tool, as well, but Northfield’s public officials on a large scale seem to have embraced the Web, and so-called blogging, a sort of interactive electronic journaling, as a way to actively reach out to their constituents.
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Take a look around and you’ll find blogs from state Rep. Ray Cox, Northfield Police Chief Gary Smith, Rice County Commissioner Jessica Peterson, and many other elected and appointed city officials and non-profit organizations.
… Northfield’s “civic blogosphere,” as it’s called, opens new lines of communication for many savvy computer users.
I applaud the paper for acknowledging what’s happening. It’s curious, though, that they don’t name the organization and website that’s behind all this civic blogging, Northfield Citizens Online’s Northfield.org.
Also curious: the newspaper’s articles are off-limits to non-subscribers, though the URLs of the articles don’t prevent non-subscribers from reading them. So I could link to the article and anyone could read it.
