Hey, I did a new thing today on the Seven Days website.

Dan Bolles, our new music editor, wrote a story this week — Busker Dos and Don’ts — on the hoops musicians have to jump through to busk on the Church Street Marketplace. The “poster girl” is Zoe Christiansen (shown here, in a photo by Matt Thorsen). She’s a clarinetist who has had a tough time navigating the bureaucracy at the Marketplace.

I had Dan record a short audio clip of Zoe playing on the street in Burlington, which you can hear on the story. And I put up a poll, which asks if you think Zoe should be allowed to play on Church Street.

I’ve never put a poll on the site before. I used Vizu to do it, because Mistress Maeve recommended them. I like Vizu, it was easy to set up. But it doesn’t let everyone see immediately how  many people have voted, which is a bummer. Anybody else have any polling widget recommendations?

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...