Occasionally I’ll write up an LTE (Letter to the Editor, if you’re not into abbreviations) to one of the various local print publications, and occasionally they’ll get printed. The problem with the process though is that it’s all so slow… a writer will usually spend a few days on an article with research, writing, etc. Then it’s submitted for printing the following day. People then read the article and follow up with an LTE within a few days. The letters get sorted and read and selected, and eventually make it in to print. Typically about a two-week time frame to have a single back-and-forth exchange. And by that time, everyone has already moved on.
While everyone is fully aware that life on the internet moves much more quickly, it sometimes still makes me laugh. Case in point:
Ann Fisher publishes a commentary in today’s Dispatch titled “What would life be like if everyone didn’t care?”
I didn’t get around to reading it until about 1pm and then posted it here on ColumbusUnderground.
A few pages of commentary unfolds in real time over the next few hours.
At 5pm, Ann’s got a post on her blog “Furthermore…” mentioning the Columbus Underground chatter as well as the other emails and voicemails she received about the article.
And now at 8pm, I’m posting in my blog a link to hers, as well as leaving comments on her blog and pointing all of this out to the folks on ColumbusUnderground.
Round-and-round we go, indeed.