Chronicle boost

Fellow Cheshire blogger, The Wordsmith, has posted about the future of newspapers and some new developments at the Chester Chronicle.

The new Chronicle site is very welcome, given that it will be update daily - for once, the 900,000 residents of Cheshire will have access to frequent local news updates. It's not often that local media steals a march on the mighty Beeb, but we'll be keeping an eye on this.

At a time when newspapers are under huge financial pressure as a result of falling advertising revenues, it's good to see them embracing Web 2.0 and looking forward. All the BBC seems to do is bleat about not getting enough licence fee and failing to provide a full service for many licence-payers.