Archive for February, 2008
Bringing you live traffic info
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Danny is still off tending to his new baby, but despite what he’d have you believe, we’re still adding new things to the site.
Today we added live traffic data, so you can see in real time where there are wrecks, road hazards and other incidents of note. You can see it at www.sanluisobispo.com/traffic, or […]
Why does this story allow comments, but that one doesn’t?
Monday, February 25th, 2008I noticed one of our regular web commenters has been asking why some stories allow comments, but others don’t. The person seems upset that a seemingly non-comment-worthy item - such as a photo - gets a comment section, while a breaking news-type item doesn’t.
Here’s your answer:
Any story that gets published from the print edition (which […]
That’s hardly breaking news
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008It seems like there are some questions out there about our Web site. Why are there two of the same stories on the homepage? Why is a day-old story still considered “breaking news?” And why is that story breaking news at all?
Well, lucky for you, I have the answers.
Our goal here at sanluisobispo.com is to […]
A mewling, ineffectual reply
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Justin Hoeger (pictured right), one of our nondescript editorial staff (I think he works on Ticket or something, I don’t know) is misguided. Not only that, he’s also misinformed and mistaken. And probably miserable and misanthropic.
In his recent blog post he mentions that he and I are engaged in a brutal mix-CD-off to the death […]
At least we use our feet
Monday, February 4th, 2008The community site is starting to grow. We have gained quite a few new users over the last week, and although only a handful have posted anything, I’m encouraged that there are those out there who are willing to help make the site a success.
People have started making their own forum […]