The Logo · Oct 27, 2010 at 11:51am
We have headlines!

Extra! Extra! Extra!

Our new Headlines page consists of short news items that have caught the attention of our editors, and which we think might interest you as well. Each news item takes you to an external page where you can read the details.

We invite you to come back to the Headlines page and add your comments. If a particularly good conversation develops, and depending in part on the overall level of activity at the time, we’ll add the conversation to the home page.

You can find a link to the Headlines page at the top of this page, in the second tab from the left.

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Pilgrim
Joined
Jun '10
Pilgrim

"Every day, in every way, it's getting better and better."

(John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy")

John H.
Joined
Aug '10
John H.

A step sideways. Sorry. The mushroom-and-dunghill relationship of blogging and old-timey media remains unchanged.

Now I know this is an opinion site, not an information site. Rally the troops, et cetera. But I was hoping for more farflung correspondents, and more tellers of tales. Fewer amens and say-it-brothers; more The folly of foreign aid was well demonstrated when I gave the Santomean children Grapenuts and they were ATTRACTED, not REPELLED and Stuxnet? Sure. I wrote the decoy code, the stuff the Israelis TOLD the Belarussians to look for, nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!

Ah well. I came to Ricochet because it looked (and is) as civil as Lileks's website, minus the obligation of reading a thousand words on how he changed his printer and dozens of groupies saying how they changed theirs.

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John H:

I hope we're the mushroom!

You raise good points, some implicitly, and it may take me a couple of comment boxes to address them. Here goes:

  • Re the contributor mix: We think we're off to a good start, but we have some distance to go. To take one of several obvious examples, we have only two correspondents based outside of North America: Claire Berlinski in Turkey and Judith Levy in Israel. We know we need to expand this, but we're also trying to not get too far ahead of other matters.
  • Re the headlines page: This seems like a natural, given that members and contributors alike generally react to news as it unfolds, and our editors are coming across news items all day long. In all, the page helps us accomplish three objectives:
  1. It increases the timeliness of news related conversations on the home page
  2. It helps us return traffic to sites that have been good to us. Some of these sites have given us more than 100,000 views in a day (for perspective, we had our first 100,000 unique visitor month back in August).
  3. It hands more control over to our members.
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  • Re member control: our core is a community of broadly-defined conservatives who can be trusted to be thoughtful, civil, and passionate. Our plans are to give increasing capabilities to members -- for banter, for connecting with each other, and for honing arguments on various issues. We're at the banter phase right now, and we'll expand this for a few more weeks, and then we'll move into other parts of the project.

I hope you stay tuned.

John Marzan
Joined
Oct '10
John Marzan

another democrat manhandled by tea party types at an eric cantor rally.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/violent-unhinged-leftist-wrestled-to-the-ground-at-cantor-event-video/

Ursula Hennessey

I really like this new feature.

Pseudodionysius
Joined
Sep '10
Pseudodionysius

Our plans are to give increasing capabilities to members -- for banter, for connecting with each other, and for honing arguments on various issues.

I suggest keeping me on a short leash.

John H.
Joined
Aug '10
John H.

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I hope you stay tuned.

Yes, I will. Thank you for your kind response(s). I hadn't thought about the traffic issue, which is a biggie. By all means do what is meet and right to get folks visitin'.
And yes, you're the mushroom. A mushroom that dreams of chlorophyll...OK , now I will hush!


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