About Nevada County Voices
Purpose: The Nevada County Voices website is meant to serve 2 functions -
1. To provide in one place as much info as possible about our county, by pulling in information from other websites and from Nevada County weblogs of all interests and political viewpoints.
2. In future, to feature daily original content.
(be patient…)
Editorial Control: The #1 goal for Nevada County Voices is to be maximally informative to its readers. Part of this information is “what are people of various perspectives in our county thinking and saying?”, so it’s important to give space to all voices. But part of it is also “what are reasonable people in the county thinking and saying”, so I do exercise editorial control in apportioning weight (via visibility) to different (offsite) voices – thus voices of the “global warming doesn’t exist or isn’t a problem” ilk have a column of their own, over on the far right. They’re there if you want to read them, but they’re not prominent; today, these are the views of cranks.
(This is a first-pass filter, and by no means perfect; it may need tuning in future, and it may not get as much tuning as it needs, but it’s the best I’ve got time for, at present.)
Unfortunately there’s another “visibility” filter, not of my own choosing: local groups that don’t have RSS feeds* (which typically means groups that don’t use weblogs – they come with RSS feeds) aren’t represented on Nevada County Voices, except as a small link at the very bottom of the page. I’d like all local groups to have representation on Nevada County Voices; I’d be happy to help set your group up with a blog, so let me know if you might be interested.
(I’d recommend the free hosting on WordPress.com, with a few reservations…)
Article authorship: the first article, on Torilis, is by Virginia Moran. Unfortunately the WordPress Theme her blog is using (as of this writing) doesn’t show her name; and one of WordPress.com’s deficiencies is that you can’t modify a Theme if you’re using a free weblog.
Commenting: right now we’re only set up so you can comment on the Nevada County Voices articles and pages (like this one). This may change in future.
Contact: I haven’t set up an email address for Nevada County Voices yet; for now, you can use ncfocus2003 at yahoo, with the string ‘ncfocus’ somewhere in the subject line.
Thanks and here’s hoping the site will be of use to you -
Anna Haynes
All Articles
October 24, 2007 at 11:59 am |
I do not know what your hit count is, but I love the site. It’s one stop shopping for all the news in NC.
Driving home yesterday I caught a brief listen of Mike Thornton talking about a highway 20 closure for this morning. When I got home I called into the station, but nobody there knew about it. Later on, around 10 pm it showed up on your site via KNCO, so we called everyone we know who makes that commute and alerted them to make alternate plans. You probably saved at 10 teachers from being late to work.
I’d like to see paper fliers advertising the site at Flour Garden and the libraries, as well as other Internet rich sites around the county, including the Brass Rail. If you want, I can make up my own, but I thought I’d check with you first. we need more local bloggers, I feel like a hog if four of my posts show up in a row.
cheers,
Doug
October 26, 2007 at 10:48 pm |
What I’d like is for the KVMR folks to get/use an RSS feed for news. Trouble is, right now putting the news into text is a separate step that doesn’t happen automatically, and things that aren’t automatic don’t get done. (whose law is this?)
And for that matter all the other local groups that put out content should have RSS feeds too. I don’t know how to get them to change their workflow though – the times that I’ve tried have not been successful.
It’s fine with me if you make fliers. Or bumperstickers, or ?
October 30, 2007 at 8:34 am |
KVMR never got me a rhubarb pie that was part of a promo a couple of years ago, and I’ve never bothered to renew. I’ll renew if they give you the RSS feed. That’s usually a good bargaining chip with the non profit media.
May 25, 2009 at 6:43 pm |
(KVMR now has an RSS feed for news, but it’s for past news, not upcoming news – so e.g. if there’s a call-in you’d like to call in for, you won’t find out about it via the feed until too late.)