Dear Seven Days,

I love the hilarious mock Twitter cover on your latest issue, and Dan Bolles' profile of Dennis Steele and Free Vermont Radio (the freshest new music delivery system to hit the Green Mountains since Pandora) was wonderfully written.

Even funnier? That you devote most of your so-called "media" issue to Twitter and a bunch of bloggers.

Sure, Twitter is fun, and I appreciate Anne Galloway's courageous tenacity, Jon Margolis' acerbic wit, and the self-important mouse pad scrawlings of GMD gas bag John Odum and his trusty cyber pit bull-y J.D. "Grindin' in the Grindhouse" Ryan (a.k.a. anonymous blogger/smear campaigner Thomas Rowley?) as much as any Vermont blogo-surfer.

But what of Vermont's thriving micro-radio community? Or the Web 2.0 morphing and weekly reporting of a whole raft of local weekly newspapers around the state? Or the digital networking of Vermont's more than two dozen community cable TV providers? Or Vermont's exploding niche magazine market - Edible Green Mountains, Vermont Sports, Local Banquet? Or our own Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence multimedia news journal, circulating 10,000 copies of our bimonthly in 200 locations all over the state, with more than one dozen regular bloggers?

And jeezum, no mention of Vermont's best magazine - Livin' the Vermont Way?

I expect a follow-up issue - "What's happening to Vermont Media, Part DEUX" - very soon.

Or just tweet me your thoughts.

Until then, free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!

Your faithful reader,

Rob Williams
Editor/Publisher, Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence
802.279.3364 (mobile) / editor@vtcommons.org