Friday, March 30, 2007

New Nevada County blog - Natural Perspectives

edited 4/1 for clarity.
We've got a new weblog in Nevada County, Virginia Moran's Natural Perspectives. First post is a column questioning the motives and science behind the county's 'fire safety' push; its thrust is diametrically opposed to that of a column appearing in The Union today.
I submitted a Comment on that column, to alert readers to Virginia's post;
In case they never do publish it (4th try succeeded)
here's my comment:
For a different view, see Virginia Moran's Deprogramming the Religion of Thinning or Follow the Money, on her weblog Natural Perspectives.

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Amusing update:
I'd gone to the aforementioned Other Voices column on The Union's website, to put up my comment giving a link to Virginia's post so readers could get a different perspective on the issue. Over at The Union they've changed their site - you have to go through the whole registration rigmarole now in order to comment, including providing your birth year (aside to The Union mgmt: NOYB, which is why I'm turning 107 this summer) -
but to get to the point, the new format is very community-focused and has weblogs for all, and lo, even Jeff Pelline the editor has a weblog - only, not surprisingly, these are weblogs in name only, The Union blogs don't need (nor allow) no stinkin' comments.
:-)
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1pm update to the above: comments *are* now enabled over on their weblogs. Were the comment fields present all along, and merely missed by your myopic commentator? Only The Union knows for sure...
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1:35 update to the above: true, the form is present, but perhaps not the function. A few minutes ago I posted a comment on this [single-post] page but it has still not appeared on the site.
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2:40 update to the above: As of this writing, comments - and permalinks to posts - no longer appear on The Union's weblogs. (and the single-post-page URL redirects to the 'weblog home' page.)
Here's what I had submitted as a comment:
Still curious about funding of SESF activities and scholarships

George, could you tell us who's putting up the funding for SESF, including the $5000 in scholarship money?
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Apr 1 update: the Comment form had returned for a while, but now they're back to "no comments form, main blogpage only". something tells me i'm not going to get my comment published there...
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/31/2007 8:49 PM

    What is SESF? Did he ever answer you?

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  2. Anna Haynes3/31/2007 10:31 PM

    Anonymous, please use your own name or a pseudonym.
    (if you click the "other" button on the Comment form, you can provide a name.)

    I covered SESF (Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation, tied to CABPRO property rights group) in June 27 and 29 (2006) posts here.

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  3. Anna Haynes3/31/2007 10:33 PM

    (and no, I didn't get an answer, but my submitted comment never got published either.)

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  4. Anna Haynes4/01/2007 10:27 AM

    ...but i've asked anew, in a (successfully published) Comment to this news article about SESF's 'scholarship test'; will report the response, if i get one.

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