The Sports Editor at the Whitman Pioneer has started to become somewhat interested in videotaping events and posting the content online. We’re thinking of videotaping some volleyball, basketball, soccer, and tennis games next year and then posting the content with the articles when they publish as well as on a separate video page.

However, the problem is that currently our tech staff consists of one, me. I try to balance getting all of the web stuff done while also helping staff develop ideas they have that need someone tech-savvy. Since video editing takes time and people what do you think is more important: videos in conjunction with articles or videos as stand-alone pieces (almost more like a separate section to the online site)? To put it another way: if you could only put the resources into one avenue would you work to videotape a few sporting events and lectures a year that would otherwise go untaped or conduct video interviews with people as part of current articles?

I want to hear ideas because I honestly don’t know what’s more important. What have you guys and gals out there done? What would you rather see as a reader? Sound off below.

If you’re reading this one on the website instead of an RSS reader you’ll notice that “Diversions – A blog that wanders” recently got a pretty heavy makeover. Here’s the rationale:

• I got too tired of looking at the list of things that need fixing for my old theme. Hopefully by moving to this I’ll spend more time writing and less time designing.
• WooThemes just provides a really great template to work with.
• It’s a more traditional blog layout.
• I’ve got some other projects going besides this right now that are starting to really draw my web design time away from this blog.

I’ll certainly be customizing this in the coming days (the header image really needs to go, but I really don’t have time to make one tonight) so look for that. In the meantime enjoy the fresh design and hopefully it’ll lead to more regular posts.