Inteligencia vs. Ignorancia!

We have an idea at The Economist about a new place that we want to build online. Our idea is to harness the collective power of our readers to fulfill our mission to pursue the "severe contest between intelligence and ignorance". We hope that this blog will give our readers a way to engage in what we build and how we build it, and help to make our idea a better one.

If you'd like to give feedback on the design or usability of our current site, please go to Economist.com and click on the [+] Site feedback link on any page.

Our new channel pages.

Over the next few months we'll revamp the pages of The Economist on the site that match the sections of the print edition—Europe, Asia, Business, and so on.

At the moment, these are not much more than lists of the stories we print each week. They don't even include most of our web-only news, audio or video.

So we're replacing them with "channel pages". These will be updated daily. They will collect everything we have to offer about the day's top stories, and point you to some of the best analysis elsewhere on the web. They'll host short, lightly moderated online debates in which you, the readers, will hash out the day's burning questions. The best comments will be picked out by our editors.

Today we're launching preliminary versions of two channels: Business & Finance, and

Science & Technology

. Soon we'll launch more channels, and add graphics, embedded video and audio, and so on.
But you need not worry about any bookmarks you've saved. They'll redirect automatically.