Archive for December, 2007
Introducing our new "Web" guy
Friday, December 28th, 2007Now that Christmas is over, the season of re-gifting has begun. It seems one of our copy editors has amassed a fairly impressive Spider-Man collection without actually having any affinity for the character. Since she recently turned 30, she has apparently decided that the time has come to pass […]
A Christmas Miracle
Friday, December 21st, 2007Sally’s tyrannical reign of terror is over! …at least until mid-January when she gets back from her vacation. That leaves me free to work on new projects for you guys without the constant threat of Sally breaking stuff and making me stop what I’m doing to fix it.
Earlier this […]
New online calendar
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007We are proud to announce the launch of our new online calendar of events, which you can access from our home page and at events.sanluisobispo.com.
There, you can browse listings and maps of events and restaurants, search events by date, name and category and even submit your own event. You can save events in your own […]
So many captions…
Thursday, December 13th, 2007I have to say that the response to the new cartoon-based caption contest has been amazing. It just goes to show what a difference promoting it in the newspaper makes. We got 147 entries this week, when typically we’ve been getting anywhere between 30 and 50. Of course, the fact that I’ve […]
Oh come all ye online shoppers
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Books are not only a popular holiday gift, they’re also among the easiest to shop for. Just hop online, start browsing and click to add something to your shopping cart!
If you’re stuck with where to start, we have some suggestions in a new interactive guide.
You can find it on the Living page.
Happy online shopping.
nytimes.com, reuters.com, sanluisobispo.com
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007A helpful fellow informed me the other day that our site is not as good as www.nytimes.com or www.reuters.com.
What? No way!
OK, I admit my first reaction was a bit brash. This nice gentleman was only trying to find reader-submitted photos of the big waves that crashed into our shoreline last week. The […]
Error: Insufficient data
Monday, December 10th, 2007Today, with mixed feelings, we launched the new Atascadero Crime Report. On one hand, it’s great that we’ve launched it, the database that powers it is robust, and it seems to be working well. On the other hand, we’ve managed to include maps for the San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles police departments, […]
[insert witty title here]
Friday, December 7th, 2007Today we launched a slightly different version of our caption contest. Until now, we have been selecting a photograph from our wire service that we thought looked funny enough to get some interesting captions. You’d post those witty and ever so entertaining captions, we’d select a winner, and then repeat […]
Big waves: your photos, our video
Thursday, December 6th, 2007The punishing surf this week was fun to watch - as were the brave souls who ventured out to surf the big swell.
We have some great photos sent in by readers that you can see here.
If you have photos you’d like to submit to the gallery, email us.
Features reporter Pat Pemberton headed out to the […]
Meet the Web team
Monday, December 3rd, 2007In an attempt to humanize and therefore endear our hardworking and dedicated Web team to you, the readers, I thought I’d write up some introductions. These should also help you in figuring out who to complain to when problems arise.
So, here, in alphabetical order are your sanluisobispo.com Web team:
Sally Buffalo […]