Stef,

I guess the answer to your question is that we do have control.  The news
team is responsible to the community.  I wrote an article previously that
someone in our community took exception too.  That person wrote me and I
removed the article and issued an apology.  I hope that the things that I
have posted are interesting and informative.  If they are not, or they do
not properly reflect the community, then the community should feel free to
discuss that.  I'm very open and willing to discuss it.

I can tell you from experience that posting to the weeklysqueak is very
interesting.  The only feed back I get is an occasional comment on an
article, and a few personal emails.  The only way I know I'm doing something
right is by looking at the stats of how many readers we get.  I also follow
the search terms to see what people are looking for, and the referrers to
see who is linking to our articles.  

Someone previously asked who is reading our news.  It seems from the search
terms that people that find us are looking for us and a specific article.
But the number of search hits is much smaller then our readership which
appears to be around 200 - 300 readers per article.  I occasionally get
400-500 readers if the article is good.  Other then a spike in readership, I
have no idea if what I'm doing is worth while.  It's a good thing I don't
need a lot of feedback to enjoy doing this.

Your news team member,

Ron Teitelbaum



> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:55 AM
> To: Ron at USMedRec.com
> Cc: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Subject: Re: Could we fix the web site
> 
> Thanks ron.
> No problem. my remark was that the web site should find a way to
> protect itself
> from news feed if we do not control their contents. Feeds are cool.
> But I do not know if they
> were included automatically (and I thought ok what's happen if a guy
> write a totally silly point).
> So clearly identifying this is a news and we do not control it could
> be a way to solve that.
> 
> Stef
> 
> On 8 janv. 07, at 03:39, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I fixed the typos.  (I stop reading the list for a few days and
> > look what
> > happens!)
> >
> > I have a couple of things to say.  First I am very aware of how
> > important it
> > is to get the spelling right.  I once lost a very big contract
> > because of a
> > typo when my explanation that nobody mentioned it and the software had
> > really been used for over a year was not accepted.
> >
> > I am and remain a very bad speller.  I also have no sense of time.
> > People
> > that know when something happened amaze me.  Everything I remember
> > feels
> > like yesterday to me.
> >
> > I am using Firefox and it does have a nice spell checker, but I
> > must have
> > used IE for this post.  I apologize for the typos.
> >
> > With that out of the way I would also like to say that I am very
> > interested
> > in any and all comments on the news articles that I have been posting.
> > Please feel free to let me know if you have a suggestion or
> > criticism.  Also
> > if you notice a typo or grammatical error please let me know.  I
> > promise not
> > to take offense.
> >
> > Thanks for supporting the Web, Doc and News Teams!
> >
> > Happy Squeaking,
> >
> > Ron Teitelbaum
> > Squeak News Team Member
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-
> >> dev-
> >> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:27 AM
> >> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> >> Subject: Could we fix the web site
> >>
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> Happy new years. I wish you a lot of fun and success for your
> >> squeaking projects.
> >>
> >>
> >> Now I would like to know if this is possible to fix the squeak web
> >> site.
> >> I was a nice idea to put the news seeds in the web site but but but.
> >> 	- we do not control the contents
> >> 	- some of them are not really squeaking
> >> 	- some of them contain a lot of typos.
> >>
> >> 	"Croquet Edit and Create 3d Objects
> >> Howard Stearns reciently replyed to a question from Mathieu. I
> >> thought I’d reporduce his response here. Howard give a lot of very
> >> good information about Croquet support for third party tools...."
> >> 	Sorry but I do not know who is mathieu :) and this give me the
> >> impression to get in a private discussion.
> >>
> >>
> >> I want to be **proud** to put a link on http:/www.squeak.org/ on
> >> important documents.
> >> So could we ut the welcome section right on the top. and the news
> >> after the portal.
> >>
> >> Stef
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>