a blog by any other name would . . .

The President of American University has a blog named after him, which he says (quoted in the Washington Post) trades on "the goodwill" of his name. I read about it in Not Really Mayor Brad Cole's Unofficial Blog, which makes another attempt at introducing more members of the community into the blogosphere.

Invitations to contribute Cole's blog have been sent to the Mayor himself, as well as to the three most techno-literate City Council persons, to community leaders, and to other bloggers.

It's all part of the process of transforming Carbondale into Cyberdale ... a goal which the university and city have been talking about for several years. Leave it to a blog to accelerate the change.

True, not everyone has time to read -- let alone contribute -- to a blog ... while others may be too computer-challenged to do much more than e-mail and ebay. So e-be it. If only 2 or 3 more contribute, that's better than one. And the residents of the City of Carbondale will be better served for it.

p.s. If you're thinking about "walterwendler.com" being a web site for selling golden shovels, it's available last time I looked. Not any more.