New semester, new toys

It is amazing how quickly time flies. It feels like just yesterday "Uncle" Rick and I were tallying up the grades and getting ready for the winter holidays. There were some interesting developments over the fleeting moments of the winter break. Foremost among them was the addition to the newsroom of two Nokia N93 phones.

These phones are a mobile journalist's dream-come-true and could push us from the relatively-new world of "backpack" journalism into the new era of the "pocket" journalist. At least that is the buzz. We'll see what you, the bloggers (and you, the viewers!), have to say about that. You have all semester to write about that.

I am looking forward to hitting the ground running with this Nokia project and all the work that this semester will bring to the newsroom and our burgeoning online producers. What Nokia project, you say? All in good time.

I promise to try to keep the "buzz" in check with some folksie anachronisms along the way. Are you ready for it? You will hear more buzzwords than you can shake a stick at, but would you really have it any other way?