“There were big problems with online-print coordination in the Sunspot era, but I think it’s safe to lay almost all of them at the feet of management, which went out of its way to maintain physical and virtual separation in order to thwart the Guild’s effort to absorb the workforce there. Sunspot was housed at Cross Keys, and you had to have a security clearance practically to get a telephone number to call someone there. Perhaps it was a dumping ground for tired old print guys – I wouldn’t really know. But again, that was management’s doing, not that of the reporters and editors in the allegedly online-unfriendly newsroom. Rather, I remember many folks here complaining we could not coordinate coverage better, to get stories up online more quickly and to update them as needed. Photographers could not get any of their work online originally.

In truth, many of us, even old farts like me, have hungered to get more online savvy, but have been thwarted until recently. Now, finally, the old wall is crumbling. But believe me, Naff’s barbs are misdirected, and I resent it.”