The interesting thing about blogs is that they are the closest some people get to reading a book. Young people especially love blogs, and would choose to read a blog over something like The Diary of Anne Frank or Dear Mr. Henshaw, both of which are perhaps 10 times more interesting than anything one could find on the Web these days.

I have to admit that I’m falling prey to the lure of the blogosphere. I am usually an avid reader of books. I adore Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. To me, they write so well it hurts; I fall in love each I time I read one of their novels, and sometimes reading their work can be even more satisfying than sex.

Whether I watch her broadcast is irrelevant. What Katie Couric has done as the first female news anchor woman for a major broadcast network is historic.

Though I also seem to remember Carol Simpson as the first Black woman I’ve ever seen anchoring the weekend world news. Not much press was made of her triumph with regard to her gender or her race, both of which were of utmost importance to me in my youth as I sought out those role models who would eventually influence my career path.

Carol Simpson was for me what Katie Couric now is for many of our youngest aspiring journalists.

Without getting too personal, let’s just say it’s about time for me to revisit my local gym. I am a woman concerned about her body just as other American women are concerned about theirs. And it’s not just the drive of magazines and other popular media that urge me to take a critical inventory of the way I look and feel.

I’m doing it for myself. And because I don’t want thunder thighs.

I woke up this morning thinking about The Secret. Anyway—long story, short—I’m going to have a fantastic day.

My first feat of greatness is the coinage of a new buzzword phrase: content adaptability. It describes the new, almost mandatory skill set we all need today, advantageously caught between the industrial revolution and the onset of the information age. It means being able to find and create information for various media with increasing expertise.

Why “increasing” expertise? Because media is always changing. Editors especially need to have a firm grasp on media trends because of the role it plays in the way we do our job. We must be content adaptable because we’re defining the content that goes into these media and shaping the way it looks and reads when it comes out.

Do you already consider yourself content adaptable? If yes, then in what way? If not, what will you do to prepare yourself?

Want to see a group of editors get really riled up?

Ask them if a sentence needs a comma.

I spent 20 minutes in an editorial meeting today with my colleagues discussing the pros and cons of adding a comma to a sentence with a “then” clause. Most people don’t care about such particulars, but to editors, adding a comma to a sentence in just the right place is like the difference between tiddlywinks and chess. In fact, good punctuation is like playing a game: you’ve got several moves to choose from (periods, question marks, dashes, and colons), but only one will help you win.

Non-professionals often talk about how editors love to read, how they love language. Both of these are true. But people often forget that editors must also be the kinds of people who get excited when they see a tough sentence punctuated correctly.

When I see a great sentence in a book, I underline it. Then I think about the person who put it together. How about you?