Column: Nuse Sense

Online version growing

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor
   Maybe we’re a dying breed, but there are still some of us left that prefer to read a printed newspaper page rather than going onto the computer and reading stories online.
   But even the diehards have to admit that life online offers advantages the print version can’t.
   For one, there are no space limitations online.
   Quite often we’re forced to cut stories that appear in the paper due to space limitations. There is no such concern on our website, www.packetonline.com. Thus, what you read in print is sometimes just a portion of what you can read on the web, where you’ll always get the full version.
   Over the past few months we’ve had a tougher time finding room to get all of local notices into the paper regarding league registrations, camps and other upcoming events. To help ease the space concerns and make sure all of the notices appear somewhere for the public to see, we’ll now post those online each week.
   We always welcome results sent into us by recreational teams. We don’t always have space available to get the soccer, football, hockey and basketball results into the paper in a timely fashion, so we’ll be posting those on the Web site as well.
   For those of you who have always enjoyed reading our weekly statistical wraps, we’re still keeping track. We just have not had the space available yet this season to run those stats. We’re working on a way to possibly be able to post those online as well.
   We’ve been posting the weekly schedule online throughout the fall season and will continue to do so as we get into the winter sports season as well.
   We still have a backlog of team photos that have been sent into us highlighting the accomplishments of recreational teams. As of now, they’re still just going into the print version. But we may get to the point where we’ll put those on the website as well.
   Those of us who like to pick up the paper and read it will keep doing just that.
   But there is also another place to get all that same information and more. By visiting the Packet Web site, you’ll be able to read the whole story, without space limitations. You can also check out the news and notes, as well as any recreation results that might not have found a spot in the print version.
   In addition, we’ll continue to use the web for game day stories on Princeton University home football games. And when a local high school team is playing for a championship on a Monday or Thursday after deadline, you’ll be able to go to our Web site that night and find out what happened.
   In a way, it’s two worlds colliding. Sort of like Seinfeld’s Independent George and Relationship George. Only in this case, the collision doesn’t lead to the demise of one or the other.