O • the deep end

I've long wondered just why the Democrat Gazette was putting in so much work on the nwanews.com site. They went to a paid site, and there were problems. There were updates and more problems. Now the merger. Did you accept anything less?
Here is an actual copy-and-paste passage from the Web site. It doesn't matter how the writing is or what the story is about. Just look at the formatting and try to figure out what words you're not allowed to use if you want your story to look right on the page.

    However, the 2D barcode technology has not taken o

• as quickly in the United States, even among large retailers. 

    That was the message from Tevian Rose, national account strategist with InnoMark Communications, and Stephen Shannon, InnoMark chief marketing o

• cer and president of enterprise operations. They spoke to about 20Wal-Mart suppliers and others in a lunch seminar Wednesday at the DoubleTree in Bentonville.