Blogging guidelines, etc

Here's a really good story from the American Journalism Review, about newspaper blogs and developing guidelines.

Several thoughts that jumped out to me:
- Immediately setting forth what the purpose of each blog is.
- The idea of the newspaper inviting readers to blog, by submitting a topic and a sample posting or two. Then the paper would choose a few readers as bloggers.
- That the same legal guidelines that apply to the print product need to apply to blogging as well.
- Would one Northern Star editors' blog make more sense than having one for each editor? People could simply contribute when they had something good, and all of our Star-related conversations would occur in one blog.

A separate column from the same magazine talks about making online offerings more accessible to readers.

jim