57 million strong

A new survey shows that blogs are more trusted than newspapers. I'd take that with a grain of salt, since most blogs, after all, depend on hardworking journalists for their grist.

It is, however, a testament to the real-time nature of blogging, and how quickly mistakes can be corrected -- and how easily readers can call bloggers on errors, contextual screwups, and matters of fact.

Transparency breeds trust.

Another interesting tidbit: 57 million people read blogs while about 55 million newspapers are sold every day. Since more than one person tends to read every newspaper, their total readership still exceeds that of bloggers.

But that gap is closing

Spreading the word to the 'Wood

With some ingenuity and luck, we're hoping to make Kirkwood News an altogether pleasant place to land for updates on life in Kirkwood and greater Southeast Atlanta.

The thought is to make it the digital hometown newspaper for Kirkwood, covering everything from breaking news to spaghetti suppers.

We'd love your help.

If you stumble on this site and find it useful, please forward it to friends you think might be interested. We've even got a nifty RSS feed so you can get ultra-local headlines right on your homepage!

And if you have some news to share (whether it be births, marriage announcements, or juicy scoops), pass it along via email, available by clicking on one of the contributor names on the right.

Let's roll.