Well, the revision of that ‘05 story that we’ve been talking and talking about is finally up on the Website. There are still a few things to iron out. If any of you can check it out and leave comments on how we could improve it, I’d appreciate it.
By the way, I think we should promote this thing online as a Big Deal, and not just another story. But maybe we’ll wait until we get more fixes in.
Steve,
Thanks for quoting me in the update. I'm not sure the gist of what I was saying came through.
And, now that I think about it, you're directly quoting me (in the popup) as saying "testing the limits," and I'm trying my darnedest to find out where I had written those words. Here's what I wrote on the Fleck annotated article:
"Jen stayed at Plaxo for 10 months. Other people got fired without any similar recompense. Some were asked to simply stop blogging if they wanted to keep their job."
BTW, how much of the reader submissions did you end up using for the re-write? I thought for sure you would have mentioned it, since, as you wrote in the original piece, "If this were a real blog, we probably would have posted our story pitch on Day One, before we did any reporting. In the blog world, a host of experts (including many of the same ones we called for this story) would weigh in, telling us what's wrong, what we're overlooking."
Also-- how did you do the popup annotations (in other words, did you use a component you can re-use?)
Note-- as I told you in email-- that on the print page (and syndicated versions), it STILL is showing the annotations as run-on comments in the text. It looks very confusing.
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