The Wisconsin State Journal in Madison is conducting an interesting experiment to link its online readers with its print product.

The Journal is giving its readers the chance to vote on which stories they want to see on Page One in tomorrow's edition. The editors make a selection of a few (apparently five to seven) and readers get to pick the stories that should be on the front of the section.

Ellen Foley, the editor, talks about it in a Q&A here.

If you go to the Journal website you'll see the box on the right side for Readers Choice with an explanation. Interesting, though, that when I checked it out this morning, there was no live link to vote. I don't know if they hadn't posted the list, or disabled the program. I'll keep checking it out.

Our publisher, Tim Gallagher, found the site and Ellen's commentary about it. It goes to our interest to find more ways to improve our dialog with you. Will we do this? I don't know.

That was one of the reasons for this blog when it started months ago, to give you a quick look at what we were thinking about for Page One tomorrow. We've sort of drifted away from that list of story ideas, but could certainly revive that, if there was interest.

What do you think?