Many of my acquaintances in Duluth ask me if I still write for the Reader Weekly. Other than an occasional letter to editor, I haven't written any column since 2008.
After an article about some of the proposed mining in the region and the promises of no damage to the environment, I submitted my blog entry "The Invisible Adam Smith". After all, the Reader often reprints material from the Christian Science Monitor and from Jim Hightower's web site.
With my using a wrong email address and the delay of having an open spot, the Reader Weekly published "The Invisible Adam Smith" in the 2013-04-25 issue.
Considering that hundreds of people in the region read most articles in the Reader Weekly, I assume more people have read my article in the Reader than have read my article on the web. The latter count is 57!! Since October when I posted it!
So, if you're an obscure blogger like me, you might have more readers if you write for some local print media than if you write a regular blog entry. That is, paper can still be a more powerful medium than the internet.
