Print column closing

Since starting the daily grind of putting out a weekly newspaper, I’ve been hemming and hawing about whether/when/how to end the weekly print column, which runs in The Citizen, here in Carrboro and Yes! Weekly in Greensboro.
Hem: It’s kinda the opposite of blogging — boiling things down and being non-newsy because deadlines are such that you can’t be.
Haw: Hey, it’s beer money.
Hem: Blogging a bunch of things first and building a column from the posts is a cool idea.
Haw: Who has time to reconstitute all that stuff?
Hem: The online and print world must merge someday!
Haw: In reality, the goals/mission of a print column and the goals/mission of a blog are different.
Hem: Having a a print column is very prestigious.
Haw: Sure, unless it starts to suck.
Hem: Um . . .
Haw: Beer money

While all this deep thinking was going on Mr. Womack called and settled things by offering to let me out of my contract saying Yes! is making a few changes and won’t be needing my services in 2008.
We had a nice talk about newspapering and such and it was a swell end to a decent run of typing.

So, since the beer money has dried up, that’s that.

kmr