May 16, 2007
IT... IS... ALIVE!
For about two years, I wrote a column called The Big Question that ran every Friday in the Tribune. It was pitched as a column about nothing, really. Every week, I'd mention some ridiculously stupid news story (we're really good at those in journalism) and then ask readers a poll question that may or may not be tangentially related to that news item.
There was no news value in it, really. It was more an exercise to get readers used to going online, after which their answers would run in the paper, after which we'd ask another question.
It's the Circle of Life. And it moves us all.
Anyway, the forces of nature conspired against the column to make it as extraneous as the content it featured. So when the Friday BayLife section became as extraneous as the Big Question, we decided to take the carnival online.
And now we have.
Now, not only will we ask a new question every Wednesday, readers can answer on the site. And we'll put up a raft of stupid stories every day to keep people coming back.
I hope you'll drop by and throw a vote in the box.
To quote Belushi in "Animal House," it "don't cost nuthin'."