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Old 01-27-2009, 10:34 AM
     
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean by links to stories. I do have the ability to gather RSS news feeds in an automated fashion to seed the news process, but someone still has to write the content based on researching the stories in the links. I could, of course, just publish the RSS feeds straight to our news... but there are many reasons why this is not a good approach. One of the biggest, is that our site would take a hit on the search engines for duplicate content. I may re-evaluate that decision at some point, but I'm hesitant to do something that would help the site "appear" to be more current, that might actually cause our traffic to be hurt.

What I had tried to do in the past was find a group of folks to contribute in areas they were interested in, but each time its been tried the individuals involved quickly lost interest and it fell about. If anyone reading this has an interest in doing some writing in a blog style, and having an immediate audience of a half million people each month, then send me a private message and we can discuss.

I will eventually get back to updating the news more frequently.
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