Excuses, excuses, excuses

      I got an email from a "regular viewer" asking why I haven't been posting more lately, so I guess I'd better at least warn those few of you who aren't family members that it'll be another week or so before I get back to regularly reviewing what's happening in the media world.  I am part of a team conducting a media workshop in Ahmedabad, India, which is taking tons of time (besides, and don't go all jealous on me, I'm blogging on a regular basis  from India at Steve's Excellent Adventures in India).

      Actually, that gives me a chance to touch on one of the themes that has so disrupted the old media world these days. Two incidents with students let me realize the reach of the new media.  One of the students came up to me today to chuckle over an incident I reported yesterday on the other blog. She said she reads it every day, and that I'm capturing India quite well (OK, she's learned the fine art of sucking up; it still indicates the reach of new media). The second was similar. One of the students is a reporter for the Times of India. He was talking about this blog, which he found by researching me through the Internet. He said he found this blog quite useful. Yes, as I look back at the posts, many of them are America-centric, but a good number aren't, and the world isn't sitting still.

      The Indian students are, almost to a person serious about their journalism. Almost all of them talk about working for newspapers, even as I've been involved in setting up an online version of their school's newspaper. The dream is still alive in Ahmedabad.