10:52 p.m., San Francisco time: Posting a photo of one of San Francisco's Painted Ladies. Wikipedia says: "About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors."
Saturday, March 14, 2009
What I'm doing right now
10:52 p.m., San Francisco time: Posting a photo of one of San Francisco's Painted Ladies. Wikipedia says: "About 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors."
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Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."
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Not, repeat, NOT a homophobe or trying to be a dick. I just hop on this blog to find out two things: Are more layoffs/furloughs coming and what is the stock doing?
ReplyDeletePlease put the stock back in the upper right hand corner and try to cut down on the non-Gannett related blah blah and pictures. Pretty blue houses and trucker caps are not what I'm here for. Thanks for listening.
Beautiful! I love when you give us tours of your fine city. Maybe some day I'll be lucky enough to visit.
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ReplyDelete5:41 am: On the stock widget, I've been moving it down the right-hand rail on weekends only, when markets are closed. But maybe for consistency's sake, I should keep it anchored in one place?
ReplyDeleteLove the variety on this blog.
ReplyDelete5:41 AM - Maybe you could custom design your own blog with stock prices and layoffs/furloughs only.
Jim, moving the stock widget all over is bad UI design. Keep it in one spot. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteKeep the ticker at the top.
ReplyDeleteI like a little comic or scenic relief now and again.
ReplyDeleteI also like reading a newspaper, because I find things of interest in sections that I wouldn't otherwise peruse.
The person upset by a little diversity in blog posts is the kind of person who Googles for news and only reads things he's passionate about.
That is the clash in the news business. For more than a decade, Gannett has ignored and abused people like me who want to read everything, never knowing when the information will be important in my life. We read the paper, cover to cover, even the classified. Gannett has long been dissing the mature reader, who is the most loyal and even willing to sacrifice to get all the news that's fit to print. Instead, Gannett has courted people who only want to read their point of view, their kind of business, their fav entertainment and about the latest local crime and catastrophe.
This fickle crowd is going to disappoint the news industry, because it is impossible to anticipate or catch up to their whims. They will (or maybe already have) move on to the next thing that gives them something easier, shorter, more focused.
I think the first post is your frequently posting troll. He doesn't have to read posts that don't interest him, yet he does, and gets mad, and takes the time to write a post that doesn't interest any of the rest of us, yet he hits "publish your comment." A bit hypocritical, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not as if he has a choice to go anywhere else to find out about layoffs or furloughs, so he'll have to suck it, LOL!
I look forward to the occasional "what I'm doing now" feature and short personal videos. It's that personal touch that makes a blog a blog and not a newspaper, er, information center.
And I agree it's best to keep the stock widget in one spot, preferably on top.
The customers have spoken: The stock widget stays permanently on top.
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ReplyDeleteTacky3/14/2009 3:01 PM.
ReplyDeleteWorse than that, really, but I can't think of a civil way of rebuking you right now.
You can't think of any way. You have nothing.
ReplyDeleteLeave and do not return.
Jim's last entry is permanently on top of yours.
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ReplyDeleteLove the house. I live in a Victorian farmhouse that is drab green and deep red. I wish I could dress it up like a painted lady, but it's a farmhouse, not a grand home. Sigh. I still love the Victorian details of my home, built in 1890 or so....
ReplyDeletewhat I'm doing now: Watched MILK today. What a fabulous movie, what a fabulous man. Couldn't help but wonder that 20 years later, people are still homophobic (now it it they who post anonymously, not having the courage to come out.) Surely none of the haters who post those ignorant opinions on this blog could never hold a candle to Harvey Milk. I'm not gay and I don't care who is or who isn't. But of anyone here can say they stood up for human rights as well as Milk did, my hat is off to them.
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