One of the efforts Galant noted which failed to get the news out was “MyMontclair”– the blog/citizen’s tips experiment by the NJ Media Group for the Montclair Times. So, rather than going off experimenting, the publisher should consider this straightforward question, how do we use this medium for a specific purpose: communicating disaster-related information in a timely fashion?

Meanwhile, if you read the comments, not all readers are happy with Barista.Net’s overall coverage. I suppose that makes them no different from the old media, in the end.

In this entry, he sites examples of lefties “hating” Wal-Mart — in parts of the country other than Atlanta:

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2006/07/31/we_hate_you_walmart.html

Yet, there is a very interesting example of Wal-Mart moving into the city of Atlanta, going on right now, that Wooten hasn’t bothered to explore at all.

He’s oblivious to the sheer hard work, long negotiations, outreach and grass-roots efforts on the part of Wal-Mart management and the surrounding neighborhoods (Wal-Mart) is going into, for the first time here in urban Atlanta.

This first urban Atlanta Wal-Mart development process has been a study in corporate America working closely with the surrounding community. There hasn’t been political grandstanding from the community, lefties or otherwise, and Wal-Mart has bent over backwards to incorporate massive amounts of local input that they, Wal-Mart, solicited from us, the community.

Yet Wooten has never attended a development meeting, nor solicited a thought from anyone in this community. He relies on examples that have little in common with his very own Atlanta-based readership, and he stubbornly refuses to incorporate the reality playing out in his own backyard. Shame.

And yes, if he’d have asked, he may have found out that the precious, anti-Wal-Mart political animosity he gets so much inflammatory mileage out of just doesn’t really exist — not here in Atlanta at least.

This post by Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent for the Guardian, brought my attention to a…