BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

This blog has been sadly unattended for too long and Yours Truly has been sitting in the doghouse because of it.

Fortunately there aren't any critters in there with me, as that would not do, the doghouse being a tiny little thing from which anyone not as limber as a ten-year-old gymnast will not be able to escape.

When it comes to blogging - as I have found during my enforced stay in pooch hotel - one has to shred one's former ideas about newspapers, columns, magazine or book pages, and think instead of litle cue cards. The attention span appears to be perceived rather differently online, thus requiring a turn after the first or second paragraph - or so it has been said enough times now that one has taken the hint.

Is a long stretch of text really that intimidating? Not that long ago the Globe and Mail, Canada's Establishment newspaper, was fairly reluctant to use photographs, and its readers were
presented with columns upon columns of text. If you look at the Globe now you will perhaps be shocked by the absence of text. Its Saturday edition appears to have magazeenis envy, with enormous photos splashed across clay-coated stock - on the front page, yet.

Somehow this appears to be meant to appeal to web browsing readers, whose attention span is claimed to be no longer than the open browser window is long.

So it is that this page will be undergoing revisions as Yours Truly learns to keep her left hand from messing with her right hand, and attempts to become at least semi-literate in the electronic world.