| The End of TI-News | Jayhawk |
Ah, you were also asking about the newsletter. I don't know all the specifics of that, because to be quite honest, we're still working on some if this. The test was to check if our script to mail the newsletter was working properly.
What I can say right now is it'll be a monthly newsletter and will feature (mostly) content that isn't otherwise on the site. If all we do is provide a recap of the news, a random interview, and little other content, we're wasting everyone's time with the newsletter. That won't happen here.
Some of the plan for the newsletter will be to include a featured story every month. We'll go into more detail with this story than you'll see on this site in the regular news. It won't be just reporting the news so much as focusing on an issue. There are plenty of things that are worth discussing in detail. This is not an editorial, but an attempt to report about an issue in a fair and unbiased way.
We'll also have several opportunities for readers to contribute content, including asking questions and writing letters to the editor. I'd like to see reviews of games and software be a regular part of the newsletter as well, and it's quite likely some of this content can be also provided by readers who wish to participate in this. It's likely that there will be a section on calculator tips and tricks, some of which can also be user-contributed. There will also almost certainly be an editorial or two in the newsletter, and whether or not I or someone else writes these is yet to be determined. I'd think it's more interesting if people besides me offer their opinions.
Lastly, there will certainly be a short recap of news and other information that can be found on the site. This won't be a large part of the newsletter, though.
The goal is to make the newsletter something of a magazine. Hopefully it will be above and beyond what you've come to expect from newsletters put out by calculator sites.
Again, I don't have all the details, but if you're interested, feel free to make suggestions or even send in content that you'd like to see in the newsletter. Also, if you have news that you'd like to see reported, or even a program you've written, be sure to take the time to contact me and make sure I notice it. I can't promise that I'll feature everything on the site, but if something is newsworthy, it'll be posted as soon as possible. This is one thing TI-News did right and I'd like to continue here.
And as always, you can e-mail me at redux@calcgames.org for anything mentioned above, or if you need anything else.
Hopefully that answers the questions about the newsletter and why the test was sent. None of this is final, but there's no harm in discussing it already. |
| 15 Feb 2004, 17:22 GMT |
