"I created a Facebook account yesterday and I don't know what to do with it," said managing editor Gary Graham, who also signed up for Twitter to follow the Duncan case. Many newsroommates have also signed up for accounts during this coverage experiment where reporter Meghann M. Cuniff is sending mini blog posts to the SpokesmanReview's Twitter page. Instructions are below.

As for the case itself, deputy city editor Dave Wasson had this to say: Nobody doubts the significance of having limited public access (the courtroom be closed should Shasta Groene testify, no public access to Duncan's mental eval), but he noted that there will still be people who second-guess the final decision on Duncan's sentencing if it's based on top secret information, and that this case defies the philosophy of having a transparent justice system.

There's a new courtroom blog where where Betsy Z. Russell and Meghann M. Cuniff are posting large up-to-date chunks. All the previous coverage of the Joseph Duncan case is here.

Koi

When you swim with carp, you're swimming with every carp that it swam with before, said reporter Kevin Graman. Koi herpes has been killing the Japanese garden pond fish. Read the story here - apparently it came from pet fish released into the pond.

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