On 27 Nov 2008, at 23:18, Erika wrote: >> Not really - newspapers had been doing it for features for *ever* > > Features? or columns? (methinks maybe a language diff...) yeah same thing - in UK media terms, features being opinion/soft as opposed to hard factual news (supposed to be unbiased). So feature: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7750842.stm news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7753557.stm > I can think of it on the old SF chronicle columns: Herb Caen, Art > Hoppe, > etc. And Oregonian columnists, too. These are regular pieces where > the > personality and voice of an individual author is the primary reason > why > people read I like what they do on HuffPo Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/