Data+Errata

Please take a moment to vote whether or not you want to get rid of the unique "skinny column" format of The Goreletter, which is no longer required for Handheld computer users. If you LIKE the long column, I'll keep it. But you have to vote for it.

Congratulations to subscribers Leila Eadie and Jill Roberts, for winning the "Giant Monster Battle" contest from the last issue. Combining guts, intellect, and luck, they both slayed the blob that could not be stopped, Geoblie, and won free "Bitpasses" for any of the content featured at bitpass.com. I've left the "battle" game page online if you want to play with Geoblie's flaccid corpse. Prod carefully!

Beginning with the second volume, The Goreletter will also be made available as a "blog" (a.k.a. "weblog") for the purposes of generating an RSS Syndicated Newsfeed. RSS allows readers to get the newsletter "fed" to them without having to use e-mail; it allows newsletter publishers to circumvent spam filters and "bounces" that occur when subscribers mailboxes are full and so forth. One article I read by online journalism guru Steve Outing claims that up to 38% of all newsletters never make it to their subscribers because of problems with e-mail systems. I want readers to have as many options as…