What do you mean summer is almost over?
It dawned on me today that the summer is almost gone. Although it’s hard to believe from the scorching temperatures outside. But in a matter of weeks Flagler’s campus will once again be crawling with 2,000+ students like a gigantic ant farm, but with cars.
But what is really amazing is what has been accomplished this summer. For one thing, I took up running. And let me tell you that is astounding in and of itself. In the process, I even managed to drop a few pounds. But more importantly, and perhaps more relevant to a blog for the Gargoyle online, we embarked on a complete redesign of the print edition of the Gargoyle – something that has never truly been done in the paper’s more than 35-year history.
This fall, the Gargoyle will be a broadsheet publication. (For those of you outside the jargon-filled world of printing, broadsheet is what they call the standard newspaper size.) To be more specific, we will be the exact dimensions of the St. Augustine Record. It’s pretty exciting. The Gargoyle has been roughly the same size since it first appeared in 1970. And this year, we take one step closer to the “real world” of journalism. When you combine that with the way we (and by “we” I really mean Glenn Judah) have been able to keep up the Web site this summer, I would say it’s down right impressive.
It goes without saying that I’m truly excited for this change. And I hope everyone loves the “new” Gargoyle. Stay tuned, it’s a new era folks.
But if you hate it, it was Brian Thompson’s idea. 
I think that an “updated” tag and a timestamp would both be good things to implement, but the date is already placed at the bottom of every story. Granted it could be more prominent and placed at the top like CNN/Fox/MSN run theirs online, but it’s there. Writers don’t really use inverted pyramid much anymore, especially when it comes to online content, so it always pays to be sure you read all the way to the bottom.
I would really like to see the date and time these stories are posted/and or written. Readers have no context of when anything is happening that’s posted. Also, if a story is updated because the information has changed, there should be something that says “updated” at the top of the story.
A few pounds?? Whatever!!! You look amazing!!!! Keep it up…
It would be interesting to hear the reasons why this paper would go to broadsheet, especially considering that many “real world” papers are going the other direction to tabloid format.