Today, Kim Humphreys is relaunching the web site IwantmyRocky.com. After the Rocky closed, we temporarily used the site to post news — primarily from Kevin Flynn, the Rocky’s Spotlight staff and a group of copy editors who were dedicated to seeing something emerge from the wreckage. When the group became involved with INDenverTimes, we shut down the site. Now, Kim is picking up where we left off back in March. We may have lost our paper, but we still need to save the news. What happened in Denver, happened in Seattle and Tucson, and it will happen more places before the end of the year. IwantmyRocky.com was always about more than saving our jobs, it was about saving what our jobs meant.

If my return to Colorado ends in nothing more than what I’m doing now, being among the last to stand up for this newspaper, then whatever pain I feel from the outcome will be worth it. Nothing this valuable should be allowed to fade quietly away.

When I look around the newsroom I see people lashing out at all things electronic as if a machine could really be to blame for changing how people want to read news. But it’s the readers, myself included, who are driving the change, not the technology.