Please play along with me for a moment while I try to make a point.
You’ve just walked into a company meeting, none of your closest colleagues are there yet, and you have the option of joining one of three ongoing group conversations:
A) What happened on the latest episode of “American Idol.”
B) Which colleges are going [...]

One of the things newspapers are doing much better today than when I first got into this business three decades ago is engaging readers in a conversation about what they do – or, for that matter, don’t do.
Much of the reason for that is technological, of course – there was no Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, [...]