Barry's Life in Napa Blog

I don' t think anyone likes to consider themselves gullible, but there's a good chance you sincerely believe a lot of things that just aren't true. To wit, the many beliefs that surround what I consider to be our 5th most significant annual holiday - Super Bowl Sunday. (For the record, the top 4 are Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, and the 4th of July. Don't even try to tell me Labor Day or any other red date on the calendar is bigger than Superbowl Sunday.) As it turns out, it's not all that likely that I will beat my wife, hork down a bushel of guacamole, or strain the capacity of the water system with my Superbowl Sunday behaviors. The truth will set you free, and it's at www.snopes.com/sports/football/superbowl.asp

KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa has fired a bunch of their news people and now they want you to provide them free content. TV50 calling all citizen journalists Santa Rosa station looks to new kind of newsgatherers to cover local issues By DEREK J. MOORE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Before they were abruptly laid off last week, the men and women who comprised the news team at Santa Rosa 's KFTY-TV were in the business of gathering and reporting local stories. Under the new model, that job will fall to someone else, namely, you. T he concept, known as citizen journalism or user-generated content, can be a powerful way of expressing a point of view, as anyone who's ever visited YouTube or MySpace knows. But how good will citizen journalists be at telling local news stories - the car crashes, school board meetings and the like - that traditionally have been the diet of professional newsgatherers? John Burgess, TV50's general manager and vice president, said Friday that citizen journal...