My Clay Sun

I don't know that they'll even let this get posted, but I'm told big changes are on the way for My Clay Sun today, including shutting down the OP office and going back to one paper a week. Frankly, I think this is a big hit to the entire Clay County community. I hope it isn't true.

I love all of you who have so much to say about issues. Pages and pages of opinions and slurs as you HIDE behind your Anonymity.  It reminds me of the KKK who did their deeds under their bed linen (sheets), and then showed up as honorable businessmen the next day after having just murdered innocent women, men and children the night before. 

There is really no difference in what you do when you attempt to murder someone’s integrity, character, and reputation and then run and hide behind your silly User Names.   If you have an opinion (which you are entitled to as an American) be man and woman enough to stand up and own your words!   Come from behind your sheets!  See as an AMERCIAN Black, it makes me little nervous!

OH, isn't technology wonderful? Faithful readers of My Clay Sun noticed that in Saturday's edition, there were not any page numbers. Now, while I certainly may be tempted to play a joke on you come April Fool's Day, the lack of page numbers in My Clay Sun on Saturday can be attributed to a computer selection that was turned OFF -- long after I signed off on the pages. The pages all did have page numbers on them. But when page numbers, or folios, are turned off by computer during the production process, they disappear! With one click of a mouse, our modern technologies can change a printed page so quickly.

    Can we talk?
    I don’t mean just chit-chat, let’s have a real conversation. And we can do it with the new My Clay Sun and its companion Web site of the same name — myclaysun.com.
    If you are just tuning in, My Clay Sun (the newspaper) is the latest development in an evolutionary process to better serve the readers in Clay County. Myclaysun.com (the Web site) is an adjunct of that development, bringing the best of both worlds to your front door and your computer.
    We will couple the convenience and credibility of a newspaper with the power and reach of the Web, allowing us to have a conversation with each other. A real conversation.

As if remembering to answer the phone at the office by saying My Clay Sun rather than Clay County Line was not enough of a challenge, our very enthusiastic online content guy wants me to write something called a blog.
Please understand, when I learned the newspaper biz 100 years ago, the word blog was used by toddlers trying and failing to pronounce block or brick or bug, if it was used at all.
But now blogs are everywhere, a vehicle for anyone who has a thought and a computer to share it with anyone who has a willingness to listen and a computer. Jonathan, our very enthusiastic online content guy, says we must get in on the action or get left in the cyber dust.