Think Glocally, Act Vocally

Journalist Doug McGill has a new weblog called "Glocal Man," reflecting the "idea of glocal or worldplace news ... that every place on earth is connected by strands of mutual influence, interdependence, and direct causality." McGill writes in a manifesto style essay. "Because the geographical distances are so great, say between Rochester, MN and Brooklyn, NY and Warsaw, Poland, it's often easy not to see those connections. But those connections are there." Glocalized journalism, he says, "is a way of writing the news that describes and explains a community in the widest possible useful context, which is very often--I am tempted to say most often--a global context."