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Hi Everyone,

We have another big update here for all you p2ers out there.

Here are the bullet points:

-Newspaper Columns -Address Book -Publish Photo / Publish Video pages -Easier to choose location when publishing -Weather on the Earth Today Page -Interface improvements -Improved login/logout

Here are some details:

The biggest new feature is Newspaper Columns. You can now create your very own Newspaper Columns to be your voice on Public Press. A column is like a blog that you can post articles, photos and more to. Each column you create can also have a url (like nwnotes.publicp  ress.com) so that people can easily get to it. Whenever you post something now, you pick which one of your columns to post it into, as well as a place that your post is relevant to.

You'll also notice the address book in the place picker. The address book has a list of your favorite places in it so that you can easily choose them when you are browsing, exploring, and publishing. Go to your Edit Profile page to add and remove places from your address book.

There are now Publish Photo and Publish Video pages so that you can easily publish media without navigating down to the page of the place that you wanted to attach it to. This makes it easy for you to just publish a photo or video to your column whenever the mood strikes.

On the publish pages, we have combined a text search with the place picker to make it easier to choose the place you are trying to publish to.

On the Earth Today page, you should now see the weather for whatever your Current Location is set to.

There are a number of other interface improvements, included a reorganized photo gallery on post pages and a simplified heading on posts that should give the site a cleaner look.

We have also improved login/logout so now you can check a little checkbox so that Public Press will remember you even if you close the web browser.

We hope the changes make it easier for you to read and publish on Public Press. Please provide any feedback you can in the comments on this thread.

thanks, truth

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Awesome job Truth!

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Spelacular! Thanks for all your hard work!

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Nice work man, these updates are really cool. Can I suggest adding a button that adds your current location to your address book? Perhaps a little address book icon next to the disk icon (that saves your default location).

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good idea ramage thanks. hey bix - that cat/dog picture you uploaded. It's not posted to a column OR a place, and I'm wondering how that happened? Can u tell me what you did?

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heh! I just went to Publish Photo, uploaded it and did not fill out any of the info

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cool, thanks for finding a bug :) I'll fix it shortly

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it waht i am here for

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Some great changes...I look forward to exploring them

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Ok.. the bug you found should be fixed now bixel :)

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as you'll notice I posted 2 pictures of a crow....forget how to delete. But anyway, I was posting it under "aerial tram", but somehow it wouldn't post there, together with the other photo's I just posted. Thought I'd hit the wrong button, so that's why I did it a second time. Any idea why it wouldn't post there?

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Your photo is properly attached - its just not showing up on the tram page because there are too many photos. I'm working on improving that, but your photo is there and properly attached. You can still see it if you click the Photos tab while you are on the tram page. To delete the extra photo, just go to that photo's page and click the "Delete this item" button in the right column under the applaud/bury buttons.

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I'm using this article as P2 feedback.. hope that's ok.. i was almost certain i added PA (the state) months ago to P2, but if you do a hover over USA, its not in the list. So now i've added it twice (i did a search, which i didn't think of the first time). Also, i know i added Pittsburgh as a city and The Beehive Cafe as a Eat/Drink- but when i search for those, there's no result ??

PS: just an idea: when you "Add a Place", the little window that pops up saying "would you like to visit" should be bigger or highlighted somehow- one time i was waiting and waiting for the page to load- then i realized oh yea, duh, there's that little window.

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Hey greeny - Sorry you having trouble, this is some of the stuff we are trying to improve. I have no idea why Pennsylvania isn't showing up in the USA dropdown, I'll figure that out today.

Beehive and Pittsburgh are both there if you search in Earth or USA... I suspect you had another location or filter selected while you were searching. Its kind of confusing now when searching, I'm working on improving it.

I also want to make it more obvious when you are creating a new place if there is another place with a similar name etc.

Good suggestion on the create place dialog thing... its probably going to end up being its own page (Publish Page).

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ahh more constructive criticism - are you getting sick of it yet? anyway:

went to add Mexico. There's no "Country" option in types of places.

also- there's no "landmark" or something for things like Mt. Bachelor or the Glory Hole.. ;) i know i keep buggin ya bout that one..

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You can't add countries, sorry :) That's by choice. Maybe later . The landmark thing on the other hand, I can deal with.

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