Friday 5

Bye-bye 5

I started this blog in early 2007 as part of a concept I developed in collaboration with my wife, Content Development Editor Janet Edens Conover, and then-Features Editor Judy Watts. In its early days it functioned as the Web presence for the Friday 5 feature section, because Charleston.net was still in transition to a platform that could handle the graphics and video components that were part of Friday 5. Once Charleston.net made its leap, this blog became more on an adjunct feature -- a place to put things that extended the reach and spirit of the print edition.

I took a six-month buyout from the paper and left the newsroom on Friday, Aug. 22 (I'm still officially on vacation -- whoo hoo!). The future of Friday 5 and Fun & Games rests with the paper's management, but whatever it will be, my contributions will end after my last stuff runs on Friday, Sept. 5.

To those of you who took an interest in this experiment, thank you.

Signing off,

Dan

This week's content on Charleston.net

Links to this week's stuff... until the Charleston.net site navigation catches up...

TOP 5: Taming the 2nd-career startup

TAKE 5: Get organized the Seinfeld way

5 THINGS: Post-Apocalyptic Daquiris and other gadgets

FUN 5: Stuff to do when it's too hot to do stuff

Special thanks to Alan Seim for getting Friday 5 on the Interwebs...

Now on Charleston.net: Friday 5

When we launched Friday 5 in March, The Post and Courier's home on the Web was in transition from an old software platform to a modern content-management system, and the old system simply couldn't handle a section that integrated images AND text. As a temporary solution, I put Friday 5 on this blog, and I've been manually putting posting the weekly Top 5 here ever since.

Parts of the new Charleston.net began appearing on the Web in May, though implementing all of the tools we purchased in 2006 remains an ongoing task. Friday 5 was not included in the "soft launch" of the new site, but our new software made it possible to present the section in a coherent fashion. Since then we've been waiting for the Charleston.net staff to get around to Friday 5 and Fun & Games on their development calendar.

Charleston.net has yet to add navigational links to Friday 5 (and Fun & Games remains in limbo), but I found out last week that a Charleston.net employee has been quietly adding Friday 5 content to the website for weeks now. So rather than continue to post that content here, I'm going to steer you toward the content there (which is where it belongs).

You can read this week's Top 5 on this link to Charleston.net. Thank you for reading, and thank you for bearing with us while we go through this transition.