How health care works: When sick, tack up a poster for a fundraiser at a local cafe

Media Monitor: Pilfering pix at City Pages; ‘Collardgate’ blossoms

In its humble return, this edition of the intermittent Media Monitor catalogues: Ed Kohler’s latest analysis of City Pages (charged with rampant photo-swiping), a look at how a local Black History Month supermarket promotion has gone national, an acknowledgment of the power of “Brautweets,” and more.

Media Monitor: Metromix sneak peek, EPpies and an Ohmigod moment

KARE’s Vita.mn? The Deets offers a sneak peek of the new events site Metromix, apparently KARE-11′s answer to Vita.mn, which launches tomorrow. [Tangent: How many sneak peeks has Ed Kohler scored?

Strib leads print newspapers in Twitter use, but not followers

Kudos to the Star Tribune for sending out “tweets” of its headlines using the microblogging tool Twitter, as it appears to be one of the industry’s earlier adopters of the technology.…

Strib Snubs Source in Target “Rounders” Cover Story

There’s irony to be had in the Star Tribune’s front-page story Saturday about Target riling bloggers with its undisclosed practice of rewarding teens for promoting its stores on Facebook: By not crediting the local blogger…