“Looking over the photos it was interesting to see how different the city looks now (duh), and it gave me the idea to look for more old photos of the city (most I discovered are from the 1960s) and go take photos in the exact spot the original photo was taken.

“What I was struck by most once I started looking at the photos side by side was how crowded things look now. Trees, signs, powerlines, bike racks, flower boxes, streetlights, etc. Obviously things change, but it’s rare that you get to look at photos of the exact same spot, side by side, from 50 years apart.”

“Talk to any reporter and they’ll tell you that more than half of good reporting is getting information into daylight. Judging by the amount of information coming out into the open, it would seem to me that we are entering a new age of Public Interest Journalism that relies on many smaller, category killing publications, rather than mass market daily newspapers.”

“It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as measured by the number of self-reported confidants in a person’s life. Yet contrary to popular opinion, use of cellphones and the Internet is not to blame, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.”