Announcement Pending
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
With commentary and votes in from almost all of the BOR writers, save one and a half of another, we have 3 new Burnt Orange Reporters already selected out of the applicant pool. A couple others are teetering on the edge of approval as I await the final word. So I may be able to get the post out tonight after all for the whole crew. Otherwise I'll announce the first bunch and the others this weekend if there are more.
Then, next week I'm going to ask each of them to put together an introductory post for themselves so you can get to know them and their background. I, as well as the BOR team, have been very impressed with you as a community stepping up, engaging in our debates in the comments, e-mailing us tips, and even putting us on your press release list when we don't ask to be on it. :)
The other big news, not timed or inspired with the overhaul going on over at dKos, the Burnt Orange Report looks like it is set to become more of a community based site. That likely means letting go of Movable Type. It has served us well and helped grow this site to what it is today under Byron's leadership, from its beginning (when we moved to our current domain from livejournal) and what soon will be, not an end, but the close of a chapter.
I have a new platform in mind, (not Scoop, but similar and open source) but want to hear what you would like to see changed about site design, platform, user interface, tools, functionality, and how to better interact with that which is the Burnt Orange Report.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at June 24, 2005 04:23 PM
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One thing that would be handy is if you could subscribe to categories and the site would email you whenever a post goes to that category.
Each category could have its own unique icon to make it easier for visitors to visually look for posts about certain topics.
It should be possible to search/view old posts from a certain author and/or from a certain date range.
We should be able to read biographies of each of the BOR writers, in addition to having their email addresses. A personal picture might be handy too, though there are also negatives to that.
BOR should get a favicon/logo.
A community calendar for democratic events (campaigns, organization meetings, conferences, etc.) could be popular.
