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Wild Card/Saturday — 2/3/07

Posted by DFO

Feb. 3, 2007 12:40 a.m. • 0 comments

Mary Souza mentioned twice last week that I should zero in on local stories and issues for the biggest impact on this blog. That’s good advice. I’ve tweaked things to add even more local, by adding “Hot Potatoes,” breaking news alerts, and “Inside Huckleberries.” But there’s always a need for a smattering of national/international items and photos of interest, to keep blurkers from outside North Idaho interested. It’s an interesting balancing act. On Monday, the SR will begin posting Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest on its Web front. I’ve also asked Blogmeister Ryan to add the AP state wire to the site, to go with the national/international wire. I’d like to redesign the site. But we’re going to overhaul our entire online publication and blogs in about six months. So, we’ll have to wait for that. (BTW, I’ll continue to push for that preview feature that many of you want when we redesign.) As you can see, I continue to tweak. And the increasing numbers indicate that the tweaks are being noticed. Now, for your Wild Card …

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.