Sometimes, it’s best to just come out and say it, so here we go: I suck at blogging these days. This is not me beating myself – I don’t feel bad in the slightest – I just am acknowledging the truth of the matter. Sorry for any of my readers who haven’t consigned me to the dustbins of their feed readers yet, but it’s unlikely I will be producing any riveting content anytime in the near future. I have a lot of changes in my life coming up – new coop! baby! projects here at the Times! – that I’m spent when I get home to blog (of course, thanks to Time-Warner Cable I haven’t had Internet at home anyway) and don’t produce any writing that meets my high standards for Original Blogging Content (TM).

However, I do still have time to feed content into a few other places, for those that need to get their Jake fix. For starters, you can follow the minutiae of my random thoughts (all less then 140 characters) at Twitter. In addition, I have started what’s known as a tumbleblog over on Tumblr, which is where I will post content that’s the opposite of Nimble Code: pithy, snarky, non-technical, and varied. Feel free to check both out and one day I will get back to writing here as well.

Finally, if you were interested in some of the topics from my Future of Newspapers posts but want to see a professional journalist’s perspective, I strongly suggest Frontline’s News War series, being broadcast now on PBS and also viewable on the Web.