What you see is what you get--and "convention"al wisdom

Scientists--especially the quantum physicists of the science world--have been demonstrating loud and clear that reality--your reality, my reality, everybody's reality--is a function of what you, I, they choose to look at, focus on, think, talk, and write about.

Capitalist Cleveland takes this scientific knowledge deeply to heart--its whole premise is that the positive, exciting, good and financially rewarding things getting done in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio are innumerable--and eminently worth focusing on.

Just the other day I read somebody's (I apologize I can't remember at the moment who wrote it--whoever you are, or if you know the person, please let us know) article saying bloggers were an unhappy lot--always complaining about things. Yes, it's true in a lot of cases. Many are. But I submit that that's because many bloggers are playing a role much like that of the mainstream media. Dishing dirt--from traffic accidents and gory stuff, to murders, thefts, rapes, and loud complaints about how bad things are, fingerpointing, finding failure, etc., etc.--has always been grist for the media's mill--the easiest way to get more attention (and sell more newspapers). People in general love dirt.

In Cleveland sometimes we even import "experts" to tell us how grim things are, point out how poorly we're doing this or that, put us on or near the bottom of their lists, and so on.

But sometimes we import an expert who's giving us good information before we make a mistake. The City Club has invited a national expert on convention centers to come and speak on June 15 about how poorly the nation's new convention centers are doing. And the Society for Professional Journalists has snagged the guy to come and talk informally the night before at Artefino Gallery in Little Italy. Here are some links SPJ sent out:
Details on and directions to Artefino Gallery
Read about the experot Professor Heywood Sanders on the Brookings Institution website.