http://robcurley.com My name is Rob Curley. I'm an Internet nerd from Kansas who is in love with local news and the evolution of traditional media. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:51:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dating back to our online team's time in Lawrence, I've always had a nice friendship with John Temple. And shortly after our decision was made to come to Las Vegas to work with the Greenspun family of publications, John gave me lots of advice. His advice that keeps proving to ... http://robcurley.com/2010/03/02/sun-website-homepage-design/ This past weekend was interesting here in Las Vegas as a lot of very different types of stories were swirling around us -- President Obama was in town, a new Cirque du Soleil show opened, a huge new section was launched on our site, the city's hot-and-cold Rebels played basketball ... http://robcurley.com/2010/02/26/vegas-convergence/ I'm a huge fan of Las Vegas Sun preps writer Ray Brewer and I love the way Brewer leads our coverage of high school sports in this valley. Plus, his enthusiasm and drive are contagious. Other than Brewer, what also makes the Sun's high-school sports coverage so unique is that ... http://robcurley.com/2010/01/11/high-school-recruiting/ Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Any way you slice it, there have been lots of things going on ... with our company, with the holidays, and lots of huge events and big breaking news here in Las Vegas. I'm eventually going to try to write about all of those ... http://robcurley.com/2010/01/08/courthouse-shooting/ For a kid who grew up in Kansas with beef, basketball and Bob Dole, things like boxing and UFC are a little out there for me. But I have to admit that I enjoy them. And it's obvious that a whole lot of lasvegassun.com readers love them, as well. As I ... http://robcurley.com/2009/11/17/twitter-live-blogs-multimedia-a-part-of-beat-coverage/