City communications director Pat Boswell on dealing with the new media: "It's been not only a technological shift, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between the investigated and the investigator."

Traditional media organizations do their homework on an issue, she says, then ask for specific documents. Now she's getting requests for huge amounts of information -- all the emails on a topic for two years, for example -- and those requests take a long time and a lot of work to fill.

We talked (end of file) about getting as much City info as possible online, and getting the realities of information requests out there for public consumption, so the bloggers can work the system more effectively for all concerned.

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Traditional media organizations do their homework on an issue, she says, then ask for specific documents.

none of the traditional media does homework...maybe they get mitch's cliff notes..Pat Boswell has broken the public records law habitually...