Now while the Hub gurus of The Gazette have read - but totally ignored - my superlative advice <grin> about what they are doing wrong - technically and user unfriendly -with this Hub, I here offer the advice from the management back rooms of one of the largest newspapers in the country - the Washington Post. Which itself is having to find out how to survive in the world of everyone-an-online-reporter. And digital sleuth that I am, I found this online in London, no less.

So for what its worth THIS is what the WP thinks it should be doing to succeed in 'Web journalism' - that strange art (to long-time traditional newspaper publishers, reporters and editors) that technology has brought them, for better or worse. Of course we who have been successfully online for more than 30 years are quite familiar with the merit of these sober guidelines. But in a wan hope that The Gazette managers might hearken to the "advice" from some of their peers, even though they look down their noses to we rubes, here it is freely offered. Now as I said in the first Old Colorado City Hub printed edition that launched this endeavor, I don't want to see The Gazette fail, but it has a LONG way to go before this experiment succeeds, journalistically speaking.

So here it is, plucked from the online jaws of the Manchester Guardian.

"Online news junkies are delighting in an internal memo leaked from the Washington Post. Senior management have composed ten principles for web journalism that go something like this:

- The paper serves local, national and international audiences online.
- The paper will publish 24/7.
- Scoops and exclusives will "often" be online.
- The paper's journalistic values distinguishes its content online; online, analysis, enterprise, criticism and investigations will be emphasised.
- Online news has the same value as printed news; submissions from readers will be valued contributions.
- All journalism should meet the same standards of accuracy, fairness and transparency.
- Though opinion and reader-generated content is important, reporters will only express opinion in columns or criticism, not news stories.
- The newsroom processes will "respond to the rhythm of the web."
- Employees will be trained for the web.
- There is no meaningful division between old and new media."