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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Busy Friday
It was a busy Friday. In addition to editing audio for Jodi’s Sunday Page 1 story on the drop-in center in Livingston, I learned that we have finally been given access to our new Web site. In case you missed an earlier post about Blox, this is the software that will run our new Web [...]
In case you didn’t see it…
Here’s our latest Chronicle video, shot by Dan Person, edited by me.
Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments. This was among them: My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the [...]
Blox Update
We’re going through some final checklists with TownNews on the new Blox site. Once we say that we’re happy with it (should happen today or tomorrow), the site goes into “quality control” before it’s handed over to us. Estimates say that we could be live next month. That means a lot of work to get [...]
What makes an online community?
Dan asked a good question this morning. It stemmed from Jodi’s story about the woman who lost her money-filled purse in a Bozeman parking lot and had it returned by a Good Samaritan. Dan noted that while our Web copy had only one comment, the pared-down AP version on the Billings Gazette’s Web site had [...]
A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil community on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the comments on its stories were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home: Reader comments on Pantagraph.com often are informative, [...]
No excuse not to link to news sources
When people want to know, especially when it comes to breaking news or severe weather, they want the info. They don’t care where they get it from as long as it’s a source they trust. (via joeruiz.net) A nice post from Joe Ruiz back in May 2009 about link journalism. He advocates linking directly to [...]
More poll issues
We really need to make sure that we’re catching this sort of thing when the polls go up live. It’s best to draft everything for the Web in a plain text editor, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit or TextWrangler on OS X. This sort of thing has happened before, as you might recall.
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