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Slowly liking the New York Times

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Slowly liking the New York Times

I’m not sure if I’m supposed to say this or not since I work for another paper but I’ve really started to enjoy reading nytimes.com.

There’s just so much information and it makes you feel like you actually know something about the world and what’s going on with it. Going to college, I have a lot of research I have to do and I’ve loved the NYT’s college section. Not only does it help deliver great articles, it organizes them into classes that you’re more than likely taking at college.

I spend most of my time around the Sociology section of the NYtimes, reading articles upon articles then putting all those thoughts into various weekly papers.

Working for a newspaper is great because you’re constantly dealing with breaking news and community. The stress of offering the best we have to offer is constantly there but not always obtainable within your own personal time frames.

There are a lot of things the NYtimes is currently doing with their site that I would love to implement on hollandsentinel.com. Time, resources, and bottom-line are battles I face constantly in order to do my job and make things better.

Right now I’m just having fun over on another newspaper’s website and figuring out how they do things all the while using it to help me with my school work.

This brings me to a question

What would you do to make the hollandsentinel.com a better website? How would you organize things and would you redesign it? Are there things we’re focusing on to much or not enough?

Just give me your thoughts and ideas. I’m all ears and hope to make things better. Not only for you but for myself and just a better online environment.

posted on January 29, 2003 | 9:47 AM EST