We updated the look. Come join us at the new site.
Dear readers, By now, you may have noticed that the Trib Nation blog looks a little different. It is. We're using a new computer system, called P2P, instead of our previous blogging system, Typepad. This puts Trib Nation in the same software family as the rest of chicagotribune.com, allowing you to search for an item on our homepage's search box and find related Trib Nation results alongside other Tribune stories. It makes it easier for search engines to find us, too, plus it allows us to make some cosmetic changes and add new features that make it easier for us to interact with one another. Talk with us: Along with our most recent handful of posts, check out our Question of the Day, at which you can pose questions about our coverage; we'll try to find answers for you as soon as possible and post them alongside other items on Trib Nation. (We tried it a couple of times in recent weeks and enjoyed it.) Photos: We've made it easier to find the big, striking photos from Trib Photo Nation, at which you and Tribune photographers discuss the images of the day and how they're obtained. A link there will remain in our centerpiece scroll. Find Tribune events: On the top right corner of the page, you'll see links for tickets to Trib Nation events, which are fun and informative -- and also a good way for us to talk with one another afterward. (I may have met a few of you there.) You also can find expanded links to all those upcoming Trib Nation events below the centerpiece scroll of our most recent posts. The stories behind the stories: Older posts will be found on a new collection page, as will a link to archived posts from the old Typepad days. (There are more than 800 of them there, from journalists across our newsroom, in our Washington Bureau, and from you, too.) A lot has happened in the year since Trib Nation was just the name of our newsroom blog. And while Trib Nation will still also be our newsroom blog -- where we talk about the who, how and why of our journalism -- we're finding so many new ways to build out from that home base to trade ideas with you in print, online, and in person. Thanks for coming along with us. More to come. And let us know what you think of the new Trib Nation page. -- James Janega Join Trib Nation on Facebook for more of the how and why of Tribune journalism.
We changed the look. Come join us at the new site.