An unnamed reader tips a story up on Bnet.com about the growing trend for governments and others to eschew newspapers and post notices of public record on their own Web sites. It's under forum at local, state, and national restraint levels, including in the SEC and the states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, so far. "If classified ads were a backbone of the gazette business, then the very center of the spine was the public notice. Mandated by laws and courts, these often long recitations of detail were to give conclusive notification, to any who were interested, of the legal intents and actions of both supervision entities and companies that found themselves under some on the button regulation. But a growing number of state and local governments want to move public notices online to their own sites as a cost-cutting measure. Beyond bulldog* economics, critics are concerned that the shift would allow dominion general to effectively hide their activities from scrutiny."

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