Response to
Issue #1 of Explore:

Below is a sampling of response to Vol. 1, No. 1 of Explore: webzine.

. . . Let me quote Thelonius Monk: "Beautiful." I think you've got something here. I love the cleanness of it, and the movement, and smartness, and all the hidden stuff. It's bright, and easy to get lost in. Clearly organized, easy to follow, yet somehow verging on chaos -- like it's alive or something. Beautiful . . .

Dave Pacchioli
Associate Editor
Research/Penn State magazine

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. . . I haven't made the transition to using the Web as a source of reading material, and I'm not sure I'm going to anytime soon.

Having said that, it seems to me that the most successful articles are the ones that are really short or the ones that involve lots of graphics . . . . Some of the stories just seem too text-heavy . . . .

Rex Buchanan
Associate Director
Kansas Geological Survey

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Explore: deftly balances the scholarly and the humorous, setting the perfect tone for online readers. It presents numerous choices for quick but substantive reading on important subjects. It presents the university as an institution possessing not only formidable scholarship but also impressive savvy in sharing its work online.

Jennifer Jackson Sanner
Senior vice president for communications
Kansas Alumni Association

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Web site looks great, and what a great idea it is. . . . Your editor's note was good, although a little slow on the wind-up on the history getting to Explore: (great comment on the colon!). . . . And the table of contents has great tricks. . . . Works well for me, but I asked our younger, hipper intern to take a peek at the TOC and she said it was boring . . . .

Shannon Littlejohn
Commentary editor
Wichita Eagle

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. . . No surprise that at first glance the design and stories are compelling. Loved hearing your AIDS expert punch holes in the importance of finding patient X [the first to die of AIDS, in 1959]. . . . I'll keep reading.

Joe Kays
Editor of Explore
University of Florida research magazine

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. . .The mag looks good. Easy to read, attractive to view. . . .

Charles Decedue
Director
Higuchi Biosciences Center
University of Kansas

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. . . I was delighted with what I saw. . . . I look forward to the formal introduction to campus and the state of this neat publication.

David Shulenburger
Provost
Lawrence campus
University of Kansas

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This is excellent! I have broken my own traditions and have placed a special bookmark in my computer for this one.

Donald Hagen
Executive vice chancellor
KU Medical Center campus