In a post from earlier in the day, Cis/Simple Mind asked what to explain what I do each day. And suggest that I interact more here on the blog. She also mentioned that I've become more of a zookeeper than an involved participant on the front page of this blog. First things first, I have only two brief periods in the day when I'm not engaged in full-time blogging on the front page or looking for things to post. Those roundups take a lot of time (35-45 minutes for HBO's Inland Northwest, for example.) The two brief periods run from 10:30 to 11:15 and from 2:30 to 3 of 3:30, if I'm caught up on my print column duties. I rarely take a lunch hour. The end-of-the day duties (scanner traffic, cutline contest, pm headlines, parting shot, and an evening feature) take about 75 minutes. As far as interacting more, I've been trained not to do so. I don't have time to engage in a long debate with someone on a controversial issue. Also, my posts and thoughts re: controversial issue tends to fan fears of hard-core partisans that I'm not being fair to their side. So I've encountered a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation. I try to cull far-ranging, entertaining posts from a variety of sources rather than promote my own ideas as I once did. The increasing traffic shows that the new formula is working. I'll join in the fray when I feel comfortable enough to do so again -- DFO.