We launched (yet another) blog on the world this week. But this one's a little different. It's called Word on the Street and is written by Scott Fontaine, a converted sports reporter, who has been given the task of serving as the newspaper's first mobile journalist.

What does that mean? Partly that he will not work here in the office. He'll be out in the community, reporting and writing on a laptop. His office number is a cell phone. He's armed with a camera for photos and video and even has a voice recorder.

We're not sure what, exactly, this will produce for us. But the assumption is that the news stories Scott finds will be different than the ones we hear about in the office.

And the blog? That's Scott's vehicle to communicate what he's seeing and hearing - as he sees and hears it. You can read his take on this experiment here.