I’ve been tagged, which I hate but it’s probably better than not being tagged, right? No one wants to be last picked for dodge ball. So five things you don’t know about me, mainly because, who the hell am I……

The much anticipated lucasgrindley.com blogroll debuts today. During the last couple months, I’ve used the “most visited” tool from del.icio.us to monitor the blogs I frequent. As a result, the blogs are listed in order of how often I visit……

There is a great deal at stake — the very nature of our political system, as you had written. Had the world not fervently discussed such scenarios, we’d all have been under mushroom clouds years ago. You are absolutely right in outlining the worst-case scenario, and I thought it was well-written and thought out.

I like to think newspapers will still be around, though they’ll be very different from what we see today. I believe they will not be destroyed, but rather, evolved. But we won’t ever get there if we just grow news Web sites without thinking about how the newspaper can also fundamentally change for the better. It’s easier to enact grandiose changes on the Web because the “rules” haven’t been fully written and the investment required to change or create a feature is generally minimal in comparison to, say, changing a printed publication’s size. My whole point is that the brightest in our industry desperately need to think as innovatively about the printed product as we do about our news sites. And then, we might just avoid Armageddon.

Be prepared. In the real world, you can’t send your robot back in time to fix things. Hmmm. On second thought, maybe we should forget about new business models and get to work on the robots . . .