Saturday morning, 8:20, sitting on a train into New York City. It snowed last night and the ground around our house is covered with melting festive joy. Sitting at home is my email box. Last night, when I went to bed, it had over 500 unread emails. I don’t even know how many it has now.

The email box started filling up while I was in Washington for a workshop on changing media for a better world. It was a wonderful experience and I’ve written a little bit about that here, and here.

The workshop fit very well with some of my recent thinking and activities around ’Investigative Blogging’. Investigative Blogging is probably a misnomer. It was one of the first names we came up with during our brainstorming, and we are still trying to nail down exactly what it is we are trying to do and what we should name it. The bottom line is that we want to find ways to help news flow more easily. Investigative reporters need to find sources and funding for their research. Can bloggers help with this? They may even need alternative outlets for their stories in some cases. Can bloggers help there? Are there other ways people in the traditional media and the new media work together to achieve a higher level of journalistic integrity and excellence? That is what ‘Investigative Blogging’ is all about. If you have ideas about this, please let me know.