With information galore, we need news judgment -- latimes.com

Reporting from Mountain View, Calif.

I've felt a bit quaint the last couple of days, toting a pen, a notepad and my old journalism notions around here at the Googleplex.

I'd once thought that a journalist's (and journalism's) work ended when a story cleared the copy desk. But a two-day blizzard of power-point presentations in the heart of the Silicon Valley pounded home a notion that the media and their foot soldiers need to do much, much more to thrive in the midst of an information revolution...