We launched, by one count, our 45th blog last week. It's Crosstown Traffic by Bruce Siceloff, our transportation and traffic reporter, who writes the weekly Road Worrier column.

Blogs have become a great extension of our reporting. They allow us to keep readers up to speed on daily developments and big issues in all kinds of areas: grammar, ACC sports, pop culture, Wake politics, TV and music, to name just a few. The most comments right now seem to appear on the WakeEd blog by Keung Hui, our Wake schools reporter.

Comments seem to draw some familiar names over and over. A few blogs have drawn a variety of commenters. Keep reading and sending feedback as this medium develops as part of The N&O's work.

03/03/06 at 14:57
It seems like many of the blogs receive feedback via direct e-mail to the bloggers, as opposed to comments posted like this one. Is that true?

03/03/06 at 14:58
... I've been a bit amazed at the paucity of comments; but some posts produce numerous comments, so it appears that the blogs are read. Did you envision this type of participation? Or one that was more of a public interaction? Just curious.

03/03/06 at 15:02
Sorry about the split comment above. I was trying to figure out why I kept getting a message stating "Your language is a bit too salty for our forum." I removed the word "e-l-i-c-i-t" and the comment was accepted. Is there a meaning I don't know about? Maybe "e-l-i-c-i-t" is spam-ese for "i-l-l-i-c-i-t"?

03/04/06 at 00:31
I am looking forward to a Blog that allows N&O Readers to comment on new technologies (performance, pricing, truth in advertising, etc.)

03/06/06 at 13:07
To answer the question from tgs above, I started the blog as another way to hear from readers, to answer questions and to provide insight into our decisions here. Ted Vaden, our public editor, started a blog about the same time, so readers now have two places to go.

I'd welcome more questions and comments on the coverage -- this is the kind of interaction that happens when I speak in public, for instance, during quesetion and answer periods.

03/12/06 at 15:30
You speak of "our 45th blog." As I wander, disconsolate now, through your site, I find no complete, comprehensible list of descriptive hyperlinks to the N&O 45. No doubt the fault is entirely mine. Could your perhaps point me to that list, which is of course hidden in plain sight.
Please.
Thank you.

05/12/06 at 07:49
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