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Monday, March 24th, 2008For a while now, our reporting staff have been producing videos to accompany stories when appropriate, but until last week, they’ve always had to do so with either woefully substandard or mind-bogglingly technical equipment. That’s all changed now, because Sally managed to get them a shiny new digital camcorder.
After a couple of false starts, […]
It’s all Eliot Spitzer’s fault
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008You may find the news about Eliot Spitzer intriguing, but not after the seventh time you’ve been told about it. Or even the second. I’d never even heard of him until yesterday, but that may be due to my own personal lack of interest in current events. Alternatively, it could be because I […]
I’m duly qualified
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008I returned from my “baby vacation” yesterday to find a suspicious yellow envelope on my desk. I say “suspicious” because typically, no one sends me mail that’s not of the “e” variety, so I consider any envelope left on my desk, yellow or otherwise, to be suspicious. Upon inspection, […]
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 […]
The Web site you've all been waiting for: MySLOCounty.com!
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008So today we had a “soft launch” for MySLOCounty.com, which essentially means that we put a banner on the homepage and sent out an e-mail to our newsletter subscribers. Hopefully that will generate some new users and those users will generate some new content.
It appears that ninjas still have the […]
Riveting discussions
Friday, January 25th, 2008While some people consider the new community site to be simply an area in which users can share photos, stories and opinions, I see it as something far more important. True, it is all those things previously mentioned, but chiefly it’s a place to have discussions about what’s most important to people in the […]
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