It met the needs of advertisers who want to get the word out about the products and services they offer, and it met the needs of Palm-Aireians who want to know what is happening in their community. With rare exceptions, those goals were met. Five years ago, that publication schedule was modified to every four weeks between mid-April and October in order to accommodate the work involved in the publication of The Sun Scene directory, a task that takes about six months. During the remainder of the year, Currents continued to be published every two weeks. Now, because other publishing ventures in print journalism and on the World Wide Web are being planned, it has become necessary to modify the Currents publication schedule again.
Distribution is planned between five and eight days before the first of the month of publication.
The cutoff for advertising and for submission of editorial material, meeting notices, press releases and other items will be the 15th of the month preceding publication. Paid subscriptions will be extended to cover the same number of issues as before. Because a monthly publication schedule creates too long a gap between issues, Currents is setting up a bulletin board on the web on which articles on subjects of a more immediate nature will be posted and on which a limited amount of advertising space will be available. Currents is also developing the means to e-mail bulletin board articles as soon as they are posted, to subscribers who want to receive them. Interested subscribers will be able to register through the bulletin board.