Welcome to our 448 new friends

First, a hearty welcome to all of you who have found this site via today's Frontburner post. Definitely reinforces for me that there is some interest in what we're trying to do here.

I'm sure it's unrelated to our introduction to the larger Dallas media audience today, but apparently a strategy announcement is coming from Belo tomorrow. Somehow I doubt it involves hiring up for the Metro section.

In other news, PaidContent interviews Audible.com's Don Katz. Applicable quote:

It is arguable that the growth of no industry has been more dependent on external invention than the media business ... And invariably - ironic though it always seems in retrospect -- each newly minted format or distribution mechanism that arises to propel the culture's best intellectual output into peoples' lives with new efficiency - creating powerful new revenue streams in the process - has been fought or ignored by the creators and content businesses of the moment.