There's a new Web site in town with news of the Point. Now, before you gasp and wonder aloud how in the world the Point can support yet another news site, please listen: I say the more the merrier.

Consider the facts: With 3000 residents, the Point is too small to support a full-time reporter. Yet we're still a spunky little place with a lot going on. For all of our local media, we still need more. The only logical solution is volunteer writers with their own little columns on the Web--i.e., "blogs."

Each blog broadcasts a point of view. Each starts with the question, "Is this news or not?" Volunteer editors also ask, "Do I have time today or not?"

Talk of the Point reports news that interests me. That's it. I don't care what "needs" to be reported. I used to edit for the Sierra Club and other such groups and I'm weary of news that "should" be reported.

Enter Karen Schneider and her "My Point" blog. In her first paragraph of her first entry, she tells about reading my news about milk-in-bottles returning to Santa Fe Market and spots room for "a different sensibility." Ah, that feeling of being needed!

She is a recent acquaintance of mine and a good editor. Over coffee at Rosamaria's Cafe a month ago, I urged her to start up her own blog. I'm pleased that she did.

Her second entry was a long, thorough report on last Wednesday's neighborhood council. The report is not only useful, it goes a long way toward qualifying her for that organization's secretary.

Welcome, Karen.

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