Back in May, I first started talking about the approaching 1,000,000th comment, which I expected to be posted on one of our three Lawrence sites (LJWorld.com, KUsports.com and lawrence.com). Some of you have even taken to talking about it. We're now just days away from hitting the milestone ...

From time to time, classes at Kansas University or Washburn will ask if they can use our Reader Blogs for their classes. For instance, during the 2008 elections, a Washburn political science class used one of our blog groups to enable the students to publicly analyze and debate the ...

Bob Novak died today, according to the Associated Press. He was 78. Here is his obituary from the Associated Press: Take a look back at a trip he made to Lawrence in 2007. Political columnist Robert Novak, who was a central figure in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, has died after a ...

If you've never seen a half-dozen police officers with guns drawn in downtown Lawrence, an incident this weekend gives you just that chance. Nathan Borror, an interaction designer at Mediaphormedia, our company's software division, was above 10th and New Hampshire Friday night and shot this ...

Several of you took the time to e-mail or tweet at me about the 503 error messages you were seeing when posting comments. I want to thank you for letting me know and also tell you we have a temporary solution in place. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say it really had ...

Love them or loath them, comments and the comment threads are a major part of our online community on LJWorld.com, as well as on our sister sites, KUsports.com and lawrence.com. As a group, our sites are approaching an important milestone: their 1,000,000th comment. Since 2003, we've allowed ...