The only other reason I thought of why state and national stories usually don't allow comments is that they don't want millions of people trying to comment on a story. That's why I don't mind commenting on stories at Gazette, because it's a smaller audience and I can usually keep up with the other comments (if a story has about 40+ comments I don't even bother reading them, because I won't have the time to follow them.)

Talking_Monkey, perhaps Mr. Angus doesn't go back to stories once they are off the Gazette's home page list. Why not click on the contact link under the article title and ask him in an e-mail?

Or perhaps the Associated Press has already told him: "You let those clowns post under OUR stories and we'll pull our feed so fast that your web server will get constipation!"

Or maybe he's saving his reply for another editorial. Have you heard the story about the pig with the wooden leg?

Scott still hasn't answered why we can't comment on state and federal stories.

ms_sassy_wi- I agree I cannot read John E's blogs. The caps annoy me. I do use them SOMETIMES. I don't over use them.
I am not hannah or hanna how ever you spell it.

ms...sassy, I can't understand why an educator would produce such slobbishness while any other educator would condemn that same slobbishness if committed by his or her students.

I shun his stories for the caps problem alone -not that there aren't other good reasons.

gfan, hence the dilemma as to whether frogger is hannah. I had the exact same thought when I read her complaint about errors. (Frogger CANNOT possibly be hannah after a complaint about typos / errors!) :)

And on the same note: YIPPEE!! for nocaps/shiftless! John E is way too annoying to read through the yelling.

Great job with the Gazette and Gazettextra, Scott!

About two years ago, Scott had a blog that asked us if we'd prefer to have posters use their real names. I was all for that.

There'd be much less friction -but on the bad side fewer people would post. I'm sure this was taken into consideration.

Plus, the Gazette would have to take steps to make sure the name belonged to the person who actually claimed it. And even if this was established, how could anyone be sure that all posts with that name were actually written by that person?

Aha, very cool. How does his work get integrated into Ellington's service?

Scott great job, I see even John E has decided to answer posts in the forum provided...nice work.

Would it be possible to allow comments on national and state stories as well? Currently it seems like national comments are not allowed, and a small number of state comments are allowed. Is it some kind of restriction for licensing AP stories?

I second the request to not have video download by default; some of us are actually on dialup still (for those unfamiliar, dialup existed long long ago and is even slower than DSL or cell-phones).

JimP,
I'm not suggesting we always have stories first, particularly if they aren't in our core circulation area. We're simply not equipped for 24/7 Web coverage. What I'm saying is that our Web strategy of holding exclusive stories until 4 p.m. doesn't limit our ability to provide breaking news as soon as we can.
Scott Angus

We are having issues with the E Edition. The company that does it for us is working on it. Sorry.

Scott Angus

Scott, Sorry but I have to disagree, there are numerous times each week I see article long before there in the Gazette blog news

I had trouble accessing it too when I tried to read it during breakfast.

Is there a problem with the E-edition? Can't access it...wondering if it's on my end.

JimP,
Not surprisingly, I disagree. We post breaking stories immediately on our latest news blog, so we've got those stories as soon as anybody. We typically hold news and feature stories that can only be found in the Gazette, such as today's piece on the Cooksville Store and tomorrow's report on the discussion of minority issues in the local school district. No one else - other than possibly our own WCLO - will cover that. As for being second class, 4 million page views a month would suggest otherwise. That number easily outdistances the traffic at the Web sites of most of our peer newspapers.
Scott Angus

LOL, I like that even better.

callitasiseeit, you could title your blog, "we the shiftless".

Hannah/Frogger commenting on proofreading? there is my chuckle for the day.

I am interested in writing a blog where I use only lower case letters. I would call it CAPS LOCK OFF. what do you think?

Oh, by the way, the video idea ought to be set up in this fashion: Make it optional to view instead of just playing them by default because of bandwidth issues. I like the way the Gazette loads up nearly instantly, as I am on DSL.

I like the idea of no print, as it would save some trees. Also, the Green Bay Press Gazette has a very cool comments section that looks as if they contract out. Check it out.

Most of the news stories you hold till after 4 have been posted by other Internet news media sites as they become availabe.

I can't see where holding news till 4 or after helps the Gazette except make you look 2nd class as a news source.

How ironic. The e-edition is throwing an error right now.

Scott
The changes sound great. Thanks for helping me again with my project for grad school, it turned out well. Keep up the good work buddy and keep working on your left handed hook shot for your come back game.

Yes, Frogger, we make mistakes. We do our best, and we do edit every story before it is published. Given the volume we produce and the time constraints we're under, however, some mistakes are inevitable. One mistake is too many for me, but I've become a realist after 32 years in this business.

Scott Angus

No, by tech guru, I mean our own Jonathan Lindquist. He's our man, and we're mighty glad - and lucky - to have him.

Scott Angus

By "tech guru" you mean the programmers at Ellington CMS, no?

As for blogs ..
I'd love to be the "dear abby"
on gazette extra blogs.
I'm told I have an exceptional
balance of common sense,humor and wisdom.
I am always asked the best way to handle something.
I've many life experiences under my belt and
I expect them to continue
being never ending.
That is until the day life ends!!!!

By the way, Scott, the "evolution" reference should get those two riled up!!!

Scott, it's a hoot.

Are you allowed to say if Eman and billnewbie for real?

;~)

I think you should add proofreading to your ideas. There are so many errors on the articles we see online. If these are 10 hours after print I assume you are printing these errors. So many errors could be corrected if you just read the article once after you write it.

I love the blogs and the ability to comment. Thanks.

A follow up link http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm...

Maybe try a slashdot system? It works fairly good.

As several have indicated before (myself included), I do not wish to subscribe to a print version but would consider subscribing to an on-line version!
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Food for thought...

Dugg for progressiveness!

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Scott, you're the best, most intellectual editor in the midwest! Keep up the most excellent work!



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