NewsHound then sends selected stories to subscribers' email accounts. But good online services provide much more than repackaged reporting from the print edition. On Prodigy, Timeslink, the Los Angeles Time's online service, lets readers take practice driver's tests. I couldn't resist taking the test, and I found out I couldn't get a license in the State of California. In another example, Raleigh's Nando offers a service where parents can look up Wake County school assignments.
Parents type in a street name to access assignments for the coming year.
Along with school statistics, they can see a digital map of area schools. And users are talking back. When Time magazine darkened O.J. Simpson's face for a cover photo last summer, editors found themselves answering to angry readers in cyberspace. Editors and reporters aren't the only ones answering questions online. On ESPNet, users can forward questions to sports celebrities.