Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mine.

When it comes to The News Record's website, newsrecord.org, I can get a tad possessive.

OK, that's a lie. I twitch with annoyance when someone adds a teaser. I cringe when editors don't have the proper paragraph spacing in their stories. I feel my eyes tear up when something is changed or added without my knowledge/approval. I am intensely, out-of-my-mind possessive of the website.

But, honestly, I think I kind of have a right to be. Former managing editor Kareem Elgazzar taught me (and only me) how everything is supposed to run on the site: how the top headlines should line up perfectly, how the headlines needs to be a certain length to look right. I know how to make the site look good because he showed me how.

So if someone changes things and they don't look the way I want it to, I have a problem.

Sure, now we've got online editor Sam Greene, who does a great job. He understands the aesthetics of the website and adheres to them. Sure, I had a little trouble letting go of total, absolute control ... but I think I've made progress; I actually let him do the top headlines the other night.

I know it's probably not the healthiest obsession, especially when it takes so many people to run the site. But I can't help it. Since I started working on the website back in February, I have put my heart and soul into it. Is it so wrong I get a little overprotective?

- Ariel

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