The Digital Desk

I’ve missed two straight weeks of my extended weekly recap blog posts. So I decided to revert back to ‘daily’ posts that will allow me to get updates and information to NewsOK users more quickly. Today, I write about something I meant to write about two weeks ago: Our health page has...

I missed last week. Thanks to everyone for all the messages of concern when my weekly blog didn’t appear on NewsOK. Wait, let me count all the messages of concern I received … hang on … carry the zero … yes, that’s right … Zero. That’s how many concerned messages I received. It...

If your friends jumped off a cliff …Two guys jumped off the under-construction Devon Tower on Sunday morning (it was so early that you might still consider it to be Saturday night). How did they get up there? Where did they land? Why would they do such a thing? Were they arrested? You have to...

The iPad-vs.-newspaper battle in CyrilMy favorite story and video of the week came from reporter Don Mecoy on Tuesday. He had a nice story about a mother and son in Cyril who are avid readers of The Oklahoman. The mother, 94-year-old DeLois Patterson, prefers the printed newspaper. The son,...

Marathon coverageThe annual Oklahoma City Memorial marathon is going to be held in just a couple of weeks. That’s just enough time to see all the content on our Marathon page on NewsOK. The page is home to a really interesting interactive map and video of the race route. The page is also home...

Some more notes and thoughts about a week on NewsOK.com. Surviving the Dust BowlI just want it to rain. I’m tired of drought conditions that are threatening Oklahomans’ livelihoods.  I’m tired of wildfires that are threatening Oklahomans’ homes, livelihoods and lives. I just want...

See the news and notes about NewsOK.com on this very fine final week of March.   Olivia Munn still loves us We received a fun package in the mail this week. It came from actress and icon Olivia Munn, who we have written about a few times in the past month or so in The Oklahoman,...

Another week has passed, and NewsOK users have picked a new OU coach, seen the highlights from SXSW in Austin and learned a little history about Anita Bryant. Read more about our week below.   Static goes to Austin George Lang and Kyle Roberts spent some of last week in Austin for the...

A lot of people take it slow during spring break. Many families are on vacation. Extra-curricular activities are postponed. Plus, we have the St. Patrick’s Day and the NCAA Tournament. In general, the world takes a breather (except for wars and natural disasters). But we didn’t take a break...

The horrible news coming out of Japan in the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami is nothing less than depressing. We’ve been following it on NewsOK with updates to news stories as we see them on the wires. We even created a massive photo gallery on Friday that drove a lot of page...

Oklahoma wildfires I must start this week’s review with our intense coverage on Friday of all the grass fires in Oklahoma. Reporters, photographers and editors did what they love on Friday — they delivered important information that the community needed and wanted. We saw a huge spike in...

See below for another week of news and notes as NewsOK navigated another week in 2011.   Darnell just a little off his prediction Thunder beat writer Darnell Mayberry held his weekly live chat on NewsOK on Monday. Shortly after the chat, we posted an article with the highlights from the...

It’s been a really busy week. But, really, they’re all busy these days.This week seemed especially long for me because we made a change that irked some of our users. But  in the end, I had an opportunity to speak with dozens of customers who use our website every day. That makes for a...

This week will forever be known as the week after two straight weeks of snowstorms that shut down our state. Our weather returned to normal. Our site layout returned to normal. And the traffic on NewsOK returned to normal daily numbers. Apple makes it official This is big news in our circles,...

This week has been a big week for traffic on NewsOK. With the two weeks of snow, we’ve pretty much guaranteed that our traffic on NewsOK in February will top the traffic for Feb. 2010. That said, we always grow our monthly traffic as compared the same month the previous year. It’s happened...

This has been a wild week on NewsOK. We braved the weather (many of us from our kitchen table or home offices). We covered another massive blizzard (by Oklahoma standards). And we informed hundreds of thousands interested customers (yes — we had a bunch of page views, too). Time-lapse video...

It’s been another great week on NewsOK. It’s been rife with controversy, which is always good for out web traffic numbers. So … thank you controversy. But the real thanks goes to our team of journalists that brings this stuff to you. LOOKatOKC and Olivia Munn Olivia Munn is kind of a big...

It was a busy week on NewsOK. We covered a lot of stories that are just bad news, but we also told a lot of uplifting tales, shared some great stuff from the past and talked to some of our best customers. Sonya Colberg has been quite the star reporter this week. She kicked off last weekend...

Another roundup of NewsOK.com and the happenings on our site this week. We’re almost all the way to mid-January (and we might be all the way there, depending on when you read this), so this is my last opportunity to encourage you to visit our 2010 Year in Review page. This page is simple....

I haven’t blogged recently. I’ve been saving it up for posts like this. Frankly, I’ve been so inspired by Darnell Mayberry’s thoughts about each Thunder game he covers (or even watches when he’s off duty) that I thought I’d try a similar approach with NewsOK.com. Enjoy. Our sports...