Did you sign up for the Arts District Tour on Thursday at te convention? This map will give you more details about where to go and what the tour will include.

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-- Michael Landauer

This week, at the convention in Dallas, we'll have a chance to hear from two interesting speakers on the issue of justice in the age of DNA. One is Dallas County DA Craig Watkins, who has helped set men free after they have been proved innocent by DNA. The other is the Rev. Brooks Harrington, a former U.S. attorney who sent a man to prison who was later exonerated by DNA.

To learn more about the related issues, check out some of the editorials and columns published in The Dallas Morning News and the Fort Wroth Star-Telegram about these leaders and this issue.

-- Michael Landauer

NCEW is finding its way in the new media world. A year ago, we launched the new NCEW Web site. We hope to bring you coverage of the Dallas convention as quickly as possible. As a preview, take a look at the map Betsy Simnacher at the Dallas Morning News put together to direct members to the sites and sights!

Heres' the link: http://betsysimnacher.coolpage.biz/maps/optimize

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Still haven't registered for the Dallas convention? Take a quick look at the awesome Midwest Democracy Project that Kansas City Editorial Page Editor Miriam Pepper has shepherded onto the Internet. Pepper is leading the Digital Innovations critique group, which promises to take the world of commentary to a whole new level.

SEO is the new mantra as newspapers strive to bring their news and views to readers in the online world. Search Engine Optimization emcompasses a small toolkit of ways to ensure your commentary shows up at the top of Google searches and not 14 layers down. Experts brought in to the San Francisco Chronicle suggested using search terms as we write our web heads that come up in Google's suggested searches.

So, in search on commentary about New York City's debate over the Cordoba initiative, the search terms suggested by Google were: ground zero mosque -- to describe a plan to build something that is not a mosque and not at ground zero.

Similarly, a search on commentary about whisperings that an American president wasn't professing his true religion came up: Obama Muslim -- when the commentary was about how Abraham Lincoln was accused of secretly being a Catholic.

Anyone else concerned that technology is helping to create erroneous perceptions and bias that will be difficult to uproot?