A few changes to The Batavian this afternoon.
The most visible is the "Submit News" button on the upper right of the home page.
While posting to a blog or leaving a comment requires site registration, we recognize that not everybody who might have news to share wants to register with the web site. This form is a way for you to submit news either as a non-registered user, or when you don't want it to be part of your blog.
News can be anything from a crime you witnessed in your neighborhood to a civic group event announcement.
The "Submit News" also gives you the ability to send in anonymous news tips, if you need to remain anonymous for any reason.
Keep in mind, that if you submit anonymous news, we won't just publish it without verification, and if we can't contact you (leaving off contact information is an option), it may be harder to verify the tip.
The other important change can be found at the bottom of the web site, in what we call the "footer," where we added links to our Creative Commons license, our privacy policy and our terms of service (which include the rules we ask all users to follow when participating in The Batavian).
There are lots more changes coming to The Batavian over the next months, even of the next years. A good web site is never a finished web site.
