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More gremlins
Here we go again:
Similar to the last time I mentioned this issue:
Or the time before that:
Or, god help us, the time before that
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Would we let errors like this slip into the print version?
Gremlins!
More encoding “gremlins” snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off “smart quotes” on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose.
Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or TextWrangler (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web.
This just looks bad.
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 site. [...]
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 things [...]
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 [...]
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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 the [...]
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.
Lightning strikes again
Tuesday was a banner day for the Web site thanks to the Drudge Report, which linked to our article about stimulus spending on Bogert Park tennis courts.
According to analytics, Amanda Ricker’s article has received more than 50,000 page views, which, as most of the newsroom knows from our Friday Web stats reports, is considerably [...]
Also posted in Audience, Social Media Tagged Bozeman, Drudge Report, headlines, stimulus spending Leave a comment
Good Web heads today