It probably isn’t a first (but it’s the first I’ve witnessed), but the online news blog, for lack of a better term, Pubicola, has been bought into by private invester and green developer Greg Smith.  Aside from being giddy about the prospect that it may be the first of many local/regional blog sites to be more than self driven, self funded ventures, it’s yet another step away from the predictable traditional sources and analysis (read - newspapers).  Although some are better than others, there isn’t a newspaper in Washington State that hasn’t thematically and/or ideologically distanced themselves from it’s readers.  And as we watch newspapers fold across the nation, it’s clear something is broken.   Read the rest of this entry »