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August 10, 2007 at 5:31 pm |
Anna – Unbelievable effort, and looks amazing! This couldn’t be just a labor of love … could it? Very impressive.
Are you planning to distribute by email, or must we remember to log on ourselves? I would probably not remember to check the site, left to my own devices, but I’d be very interested to receive it when it comes out.
Thanks …
August 10, 2007 at 10:51 pm |
Thanks Anne, that’s an interesting idea – I hadn’t considered emailing it. I’ll think about it…
August 15, 2007 at 1:48 pm |
(I should clarify – truth is I don’t yet know how to email an entire page – what’s involved in the way of scripting etc; I’d be happy to do it, if I knew. I can look into it, unless…Anyone else know?)
August 27, 2007 at 9:29 am |
Thanks for all the effort, Anna. The site is great! I feel so much better connected to the community now. A wonderful and interesting resource.
September 2, 2007 at 10:10 am |
Hi, Anna. Food for thought: If you have an election coming up, you could do something with that.
October 24, 2007 at 12:06 pm |
Saving and emailing entire pages can be a problem with some web design programs, which depend on executables that never get delivered as files to the client machines. I found this out the hard way, saving a lot of sites and then discovering they’d never run properly later. There are plugin work arounds for this type of problem, but if readers can’t figure out revisiting sites….?
Maybe having simple instructions for bookmarking in Explorer and Firefox would help these folks out. Also, history is a good place to go back and revisit recent sites, not to mention just pushing the down arrow to the right of the addy space.
October 26, 2007 at 10:42 pm |
Actually the page has no Javascript or other scripty stuff, so it should email just fine.
…IF only I knew how to make a script do it automatically – anything you have to do by hand ends up not getting done.
February 6, 2008 at 9:59 am |
ncvoices layout is arriving weirdly in Firefox at 1024×768 this monring. The columns are stacked vertically, instead of being nicely spread across the page.
If it is still this way tomorrow, I’ll give you another heads up.
February 6, 2008 at 6:21 pm |
Thanks Doug. MSIE is doing it too. Looking into it…
February 6, 2008 at 10:06 pm |
OK, I see. My bad. Although it’ll probably fix itself in about 3 hours…
March 8, 2008 at 10:39 am |
All my posts are deleted, what gives?
Doug
530-277-3456
The blog is still at the top listing, but the rest (the posts) are not there.
March 8, 2008 at 4:30 pm |
Looks ok to me now (does it look ok to you too?)
Sometimes there’s a hiccup with an RSS feed.
July 31, 2008 at 1:38 pm |
Eric Tomes suggested that I get a look at your great website. The only thing that’s missing is MY blog. I’m co-director of Saving The Sierra, a regional media project that features the stories and voices of Californians from the Sierra Nevada. Find out how we can all take part in preserving the culture, economy, and environment of rural America.
Our public radio documentary has aired on more than 180 stations around the country, including KVMR.
For your consideration, http://www.savingthesierra.org/blog. RSS feed is at the bottom of the page.
July 31, 2008 at 1:51 pm |
Hi Catherine, Eric told me he’d talked to you. Sorry, been busy, will add your feed forthwith.
(poor ncvoices is a bit stale and needs attention anyway; I think the typepad RSS format must have changed and I’m not reading it right, so a lot of blog feeds aren’t showing up.)
August 6, 2008 at 8:51 am |
My unconscious must have finally noticed the slight change at the top of ncvoices, and so I clicked through. Welcome to Catherine Stifter and Saving the Sierra.
As a possible adjunct for everyone, I’ve set up Discussion Forums as follows:
http://www.SierraDebates.com
A general purpose area for discussing just about anything, but intended primarily for Nevada County residents. It’s intended as a more solid version of the commenting sections of The Union, and a place for geographically and topic specific conversations.
http://www.SierraRides.com
A carpool meetup point.
I have yet to do any real advertising for either site, and will be fleshing out topics over time.
August 6, 2008 at 6:37 pm |
> Hey Doug, that’s excellent!
And fyi to all, SierraDebates.com has a “fire” forum, for sharing info about local fires.
um, doug….any way for sierradebates to have an rss feed?
August 17, 2008 at 9:47 am |
As for an RSS feed, I imagine that it can. First I have to find out just exactly what one is…
I understand it allows for automatic republishing, but I haven’t a clue as to how it works.
I have made up small cards which I am now spreading throughout the country.
“Western Nevada County’s Pick of the Web”
It includes references to your site as well as Yubanet.com and my sites. The master is at Country Copy, and I paid $35 for the first 800 cards, and have distributed a lot of them already. There are economies of scale if more are purchased at one time. I’ll send you a picture of the card soon.
September 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm |
I am no longer able to click on a post and go to that post. I am using Firefox, lastest version, and it keeps on asking me about using live feed. I try to use that, and nothing happens?
September 30, 2008 at 7:02 am |
Ok Dixie and the Simplifier work just fine. mine and the Tibitin do not. What is the difference? can you tell me what I need to do to make mine work?
Thanks,
Doug
September 30, 2008 at 6:42 pm |
It’s a blogspot-feed problem – typepad feeds are fine – and as for a solution, I wish I knew, Doug. I’m trying…
October 9, 2008 at 6:45 am |
As bear as I can tell, blogs hosted at blogspot are no longer accessable through this site.
It looks as though having a typepad account is preferred, or hosting a blog as one’s very own domain. Please let me know which of the two you prefer.
thanks,
Doug
October 9, 2008 at 12:24 pm |
Hold on a bit Doug, looks like we may have a workaround… I’ll try it and report back.
October 9, 2008 at 12:28 pm |
Hooray! Wait an hour or so and all will be well.
October 13, 2008 at 6:32 am |
All is not well for my older posts, I will try a new one, just for you.
October 27, 2008 at 9:35 am |
Doug, if all is still not well, please let me know. (they worked for me, not sure what problem you were seeing)
November 9, 2008 at 7:14 pm |
Anna– Cool site. I linked to it on my End of Life Issues blog as we discussed, so check that out. Hope you’ll return the favor and link back to me. Send an email when you do. Thanks.
November 9, 2008 at 9:50 pm |
Bill, your blog is in “weblogs-misc”, the 3rd column.
December 5, 2008 at 1:40 pm |
Hi Anna,
Since we changed our Web site, NC Voices is only getting the national feed, not the local news. Is there a way to fix that, on your end or mine? Thanks
December 5, 2008 at 2:51 pm |
Hi Dixie, thanks for letting me know.
In short: KNCO’s website needs to provide a ” local news” RSS feed, and right now it doesn’t, as far as I know.
While I’d thought they did- there’s an orange RSS icon next to “more local news…” (on knco front page) – it goes to
http://www.knco.com/feed/index.1.rss
- but, it turns out (as you pointed out) this is *not* local news.
Let me know when Spiral has a “local news” feed working, and I’ll fix NCVoices ASAP.
(and thanks again for the heads-up!)
January 26, 2009 at 7:38 am |
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-greenjobs26-2009jan26,0,1010817.story
February 14, 2009 at 9:54 pm |
From DrMiller.com
Suggesting http://millerblog.typepad.com/paradigmshift/
also
http://healingtimesonline.blogspot.com/
and
http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001zhxIANf2OP4KNrc-H8q1BkEn9pQeZBOcCInnRa4pPjaIA17zch-04dwC7Z5p8cFazgZFNJ6_PMB1YBxOtP7RnfOW3KOdTMpLw6HvJE-OGKhhZlrR6Zv83FMbuI6Cy00zd1i-HH3meuC48onJa8xxWUB0fiU96-Q5CeCkzkHlyG7xllW5iZTWjBrQXo5tP28_
Em
February 14, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
Thanks Emmett – I added your 2 blogs, but didn’t see an RSS feed for the site at the 3rd URL. Might be easiest if you just put up a link to it, on the sidebar of your blogs…
Welcome to NC Voices -
Anna
April 13, 2009 at 2:00 pm |
Here are the feed URLs (feedburner) that I think will be of interest to you. I’ll put the others in feedburner as well.
The Editors blog: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheEditors-TheUnion
Prospector Underground: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ProspectorUnderground
The Aggregate: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheAggregate-TheUnion
Grass Valley Insider: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GrassValleyInsider
Around Nevada City: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AroundNevadaCity
May 25, 2009 at 6:21 am |
Great site!
The Magic Theatre: they don’t appear to have a feed, but here is their link: http://www.themagictheatre.com/
May 25, 2009 at 6:22 pm |
Thanks Rod! I’ll ask them if they can provide the current film title in scrapable format, or as a feed, or something…and if you go in there, perhaps you could ask too…?
June 2, 2009 at 11:28 am |
I was going to suggest a more vertical layout but then see some posters prefer horizontal. People (I am a “people”) might not see what is on the right until after some time as we are used to vertical.
Here is a worthy local blog to connect to if possible http://nuunderground.blogspot.com/
Greg
June 5, 2009 at 3:51 pm |
Thanks GZ.
> I was going to suggest a more vertical layout
Trouble is, I’m trying to keep the freshest content at the top, but some sites’ feeds and/or scrapings(eg TV and movie schedules) won’t play well with others, timestamp-wise, and so I have to segregate them; at which point – which comes sooner, the more I “verticalize” the page – fresh content gets buried underneath not-so-fresh.
Thanks for the NU Underground link! I hope they keep writing, over the summer.
June 8, 2009 at 10:01 pm |
Hey there, Anna;
I am looking at your NCvoices, and am impressed.
I am seeing that your Ning thingy is not very active yet. Neccobb has continuously grown, and you are welcome to add that as a newsfeed, if you like.
Blessings,
Ingo
June 9, 2009 at 10:16 am |
Hi Ingo -
> Neccobb has continuously grown, and you are welcome to add that as a newsfeed,
I’d love to, if y’all have a feed, but I don’t think you do – neccobb (Nevada County Community Online Bulletin Board, for you readers)’s posts don’t seem to be publicly readable.
Any chance you might make NECCOBB public to give NCVoices a feed, or do y’all want to keep on keeping the list private?
> your Ning thingy is not very active yet.
I agree, the Nevada County Unites“Ning thingy” (I like it!) doesn’t look promising – at least, the dynamics of activity there (i.e., tapered off to near nothing) don’t.
Prediction: to thrive, it’d need a strong, and inclusive, community “Mom” to welcome people and keep the site conversations active – but nobody has stepped up to the plate to do that. (My excuse: I don’t have the time/patience/tolerance to be a good community Mom, at least not now).
And even that might not do the trick – we may just be too small a community to achieve critical mass for a site like that. Lots of Ning sites end up flopping.
For now on NCVoices I’ll just add a neccobb link, over with Doug Keachie’s forum links in the Misc section.
June 30, 2009 at 3:44 pm |
Hi Anna,
I recently heard about NC Voices. Thanks for putting it together! Both my husband (Paul Smith) and I are pretty social media savvy (we do that for our businesses) and would love:
- To have our blogs listed here. Mine is http://www.LetYourLifeBloom.com and his is http://www.greensmithconsulting.com/greensmith_consulting_hel/2009/05/10-ways-to-change-the-world.html
- Help you if you need any around social media
Also, I’m in the process of creating a local chapter of a Social Media Club and would love to connect with other people that are interested in joining. You can learn more here http://www.socialmediaclub.org
Cheers,
Vanessa
July 9, 2009 at 8:54 pm |
Anna I thought you might be interested in the Sierra Business Council twitter feed at SustainSierra or my twitter feed at stevenfrisch
July 10, 2009 at 10:18 am |
Anna,
Can you separate YubaNet from Jeff Pelline? People think there is some link, and there is NOT!
Thanks
July 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm |
Thanks, both. Since Having JP and YN both in same column was confusing, I’ve merged JP back into the “general” group (and Steven, I’m adding you to it too).
Adding SBC Forest Carbon into Climate.
I’m starting to get nervous about adding a whole bunch of separate Twitter feeds into NCVoices; I really really want to get a merged Twitter feed, instead of making my script merge in a bunch of them. (I _can_ get a merged twitter feed, but Twitter for some reason is convinced that this must be private.) Twitterfeed.com might do it; I’ll try. But if anyone knows of something better…?
July 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm |
Progress report re my “But if anyone knows of something better…?” – the problem is solved, I wrote a Ruby script to do it, while standing on the shoulders of giants.
August 6, 2009 at 11:11 am |
Hi Anna,
I really like your site. The County has a couple RSS feeds that may be useful. The first is the “What’s News” articles from our front page. These are typically public health notifications, library events, public notices, etc.
http://www.mynevadacounty.com/Syndication/DF.cfm?f=1&ft=10
The second is a feed for the Board of Supervisors meetings streaming video on demand service. This is a great public service and we want more folks to be aware of it. http://nevco.granicus.com/ViewPublisherRSS.php?view_id=3&mode=
The County struggles to get our information out to more of the public and your site seems to be a great venue for this.
I hope you will consider adding these feeds.
Best regards,
Steve Monaghan
Chief Information Officer
Nevada County
August 8, 2009 at 11:27 am |
Thanks Steve for the suggestions (and the subsequent help!)
However, NCVoices has a “feature” (alas) – the link it picks up, from a “meetings” RSS entry , is the link to the pdf of the minutes, not to the streaming video.
Maybe it’ll behave better on an in-progress meeting…?
(this is a Ruby RSS-reading bug, in code that I don’t think anyone works on anymore, so it’s not an easy fix.)
October 21, 2009 at 9:24 am |
Hi Anna,
I was just poking around on your website and noticed that under too quiet is Healing Times (Emmett’s Old Blog Site) I wanted to let you know about his new WordPress site at DrMillerBlogs.com. It would be great if that link could be updated.
THANKS!!!!
Aeron Miller
October 22, 2009 at 11:48 am |
Hi Anna–good to see you again at the YubaNet party the other day. Here is the link to our RSS feed at Sierra Commons, as you asked: http://sierracommons.org/feed
Thanks for including us!