If you're a registered user of Poynter Online, you heard from me last month about our plans to launch Version 6.0 of the site in the first several months of 2008.

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Between now and then, we'll use this Poynterevolution blog to share with you what we've got in mind -- and to seek your help in making course corrections before the concrete hardens. We also expect the blog to remain an important part of the site post-launch.

With our new Poynter Labs, we'll be constantly trying out new functionality. We'll link to projects in the works in the rail to your left and will seek your tweaks via Poynterrevolution.

For starters, though, I hope you'll help us with a fundamental challenge we're facing in building the new site: the best way of highlighting new content as it's posted throughout the day. A new edition of Al's Morning Meeting is posted just after midnight, Jim Romenesko begins updating his page shortly after 7 a.m., and new content from elsewhere on the site is linked from the New on Poynter stack in the right rail. But there's no easy way to track everything added to the site as the day unfolds.

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What do you think of these approaches? Can you point us at some good ways of accomplishing the "this-just-in" mission on other sites? Please add your comments to Feedback below.

In the spirit of this just in, please check out the latest installment in The Biz Blog, a new feature by Poynter's business analyst, Rick Edmonds. Rick addresses one of the latest cost-cutting trends in the newspaper business: outsourcing beyond American shores.

In the weeks ahead, my colleagues and I will be posting other questions for you in this space. Thanks in advance for your help.