Herald site first to track Y2K bug

Herald journalists will be the first to provide the world with a comprehensive insight into the effects of Y2K as the millennium rolls over.

Our journalists, placed at key locations, including the national and Auckland regional emergency centres, will file directly to the Herald's special millennium site at www.herald.co.nz/millennium/ to give up-to-the-moment reports on how New Zealand copes with any outbreak of the Y2K bug.

The fully interactive site features a list of the events New Zealanders have planned to celebrate the millennium as well as links to the key millennium celebration sites around the world.

Reports and pictures of celebrations at the Chatham Islands, Gisborne, Mt Hikurangi and elsewhere will be filed to the site by our journalists and photographers.

The Herald's millennium site is the latest Web development by Wilson & Horton Interactive, the new media development division of Wilson & Horton.

It includes a retrospective of the century, where visitors will be given the chance to enter a competition to win a special edition of the New Zealand Herald Book of the Century, signed by Sir Edmund Hillary.

Users will also be able to interact with each other through forums - another first for the Herald site.