The top story on the Duluth News Tribune website when I logged on this morning was that Charles Gibson talked about the Duluth News Tribune on ABC World News last night. It’s cold in northern Minnesota today, get it.

I must admit, if Charlie Gibson talked about ME on World News I would be plastering that stuff all over this blog, especially links to buy my new book, “Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range,” a heartfelt memoir of a new generation in a blue collar wonderland. But that’s me. Somehow when the DNT, the region’s largest newspaper, does the same kind of thing it seems … weird.

This media convergence business is getting to be like a party where someone’s dad shows up and tries to be cool. I guess I shouldn’t judge, but still …