When Nike CEO Phil Knight halted all of his personal donations to the University, more than 75,000 of you read about it online before any paper went to press with the story.
When you missed yesterday’s news and couldn’t find an Emerald lying on the floor in class, you came to the Web.
And when you actually graduate from this University, you’ll want to keep informed about campus news and events, and yes (gasp), you will even want to read the Emerald — online.
But when you want breaking news, as well as sports, community, entertainment, and opinion coverage, the only place to go is www.daily emerald.com.
Sure, you can find all of these stories in the paper you’re reading right now, but daily emerald.com is different. As online editor, it’s my job to make it that way.
daily emerald.com embraces cutting-edge technology with exclusive material — feedback, message boards, interactive online polls and extra sections you won’t find in the daily print publication: The Moving Guide, 100 Years at the Oregon Daily Emerald, and the recently-added Elections 2000 — a compilation of Emerald articles about the 2000 presidential elections and online voter information.
Coming soon, you’ll also find a weekly online-only tech column, written by myself for all you computer geeks, Internet junkies, or friends that simply want to make fun of my attempt to bridge technology and college life together without the lingo of a professional computer tech magazine or the fluff of “U. Magazine.” Think of it more as an edgy and sassy “Wired” article, but don’t hold me to it, either.
If you don’t want to read my thoughts and opinions, write your own. One of the more popular features on our site is feedback — a way for you to spill out your own ideas on Emerald articles. If you thought “The Princess Bride” was inconceivably the worst ’80s movie ever, but our staff loved it, tell us. If you want to speak your mind about current events or campus news such as the University’s decision to join the WRC and FLA, post your comments. Selected stories have their own feedback box, which can be found on the bottom of the page of each story.
Feedback posts are not letters to the editor, but with permission may be included in the print edition as well. And as online editor, I have the right to edit for length, content or obscenity. Remember, this is a forum for discussion — respect your audience and make comments the way you would like to be addressed, and above all, RESPOND to other responses. There’s nothing more boring than a message board with only one response, so communicate with each other just like we used to before the glorious invention of the Internet and e-mail. That wasn’t too long ago, was it?
Well, what do I know? I’d be out a job if it wasn’t for the Internet.