Elastic

The Cube is big. Really, really big. As big as I need it to be. For instance, yesterday (as it will again tomorrow) it stretched all the way to Stratford, Connecticut, in southwest CT on Long Island Sound, where is where I worked from to get the day's initial site live.

What was I doing in Connecticut, anyway? Here's the answer...

Lots of news organizations are decentralized. In a sense, they always have been; major newspapers had bureaus all over the world. Ironically, papers like the Boston Globe are now retrenching and closing many of those as they look to relocalize and keep their costs down; foreign offices are an easy target for cost-cutters. A paper like the Gazette, on the other hand, is already inherently local -- the Valley is the area, and we have to be here to cover that well. But the Web makes it simpler to do under-the-hood work from pretty much anywhere that has a broadband connection. Now, if I can find out that Tahiti does, I can lobby for a bureau there. (Although my bosses may decide that Bangalore is a better idea.....)