Opinion250 a Regional Internet Paper?

By Ben Meisner

You may have wondered just where the comments at Opinion250 come from.  

Given the large numbers of postings this past week , we decided to do a look see to give you some idea of where the traffic comes from.

To our surprise ,we found that Opinion250 is  not just accessed by the people of  Prince George , British Columbia , Alberta ,or for that matter the balance of Canada . In the stories of the tasering death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, we have registered commentators from British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba and several American States.

Internet News has been hard for all of us at Opinion250 to get our heads around, and I’m sure that it is as well for many of you.

You would think that a posting comes from perhaps down the street in the city or certainly no further than within the province. That simply is not the case and this past week has shown us just how wide spread our audience is.

So when you think you might be arguing with a person on a specific point they could not only be outside of this province, they may be outside of this country.

We have become accustomed to thinking that we reach only the immediate area, the internet has changed all that, shrinking the world to the size of Prince George and district.

We just thought you’d like to know.

I’m Meisner

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