The Guardian’s blogs editor, Kevin Anderson, was kind enough to pay me a visit today in San Diego as he prepares to begin his tour across America covering the presidential election. Needless to say, recent events have made the state of local and regional economies a bigger part of the conversation he hopes to have with people as he makes his way east.

As always, Kevin’s taking advantage of a set of cool tools, starting with a GPS receiver that continuously tracks his location. A pretty handy device when you plan to travel 4,000 miles between now and the election. As we drove back from lunch he was taking a picture with a GPS enabled camera phone of an SUV with Texas plates and a McCain/Palin sticker, driving along a San Diego freeway.

Good luck in that Kia, Kevin!

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Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein discussed the financial crisis online last Wednesday. The chat transcript is here.

A better example of why people despise the media is hard to find. A few gems:

• This is the kind of question that serves no useful purpose.

• Nobody has been more critical of the practices of banks and Wall Street and brokers than I have, probably long before you were even focused on this issue, so I certainly don’t owe you any apology on that one. If you want to check, you’ll see I won a certain [Pulitzer] prize for that.
• So I’d say on all four points, you are misinformed.
• Thank God there is a mainstream media out there that actually does reporting and has people who understand thing, because if the flow of information and news to the American people were left solely to bloggers, we’d be in a big mess.
• Obviously you’ve read one column and none of the dozens that preceeded it. Please do your homework before sharing your disgust.
• It’s mostly the bloggers who have come in and, on this one, poisoned the conversation, as they are wont to do.

Kudos for having the conversation but, good heavens, get off your high horse!

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