News-Record.com

One of the major steps we need to take in turning our Web site into the kind of virtual town square we envision is making our Web site more robust, taking more advantage of the capabilities of the medium. Up to now, we've been hindered in News by a lack of hardware and software with which to create and edit audio, video and Flash presentations. What we've done, we've done by borrowing equipment from our tech folks (or, in a few cases, working with personal equipment).

But I'm delighted to say that's changing. We'll soon be getting computer equipment that will enable us to create and edit multimedia presentations here in the newsroom, without having to hit up our friends across the hall for their equipment. It's not as much as we need or want, but at least it'll be ours and it'll be here. And we hope to begin posting the fruits of our new resource very soon.