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May 17, 2006

Thanks to all who Attended Open Comment Night 2

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:56 am

Open Comment Night 2

It’s that Open Comment Night 2 was also a grand success. 174 comments and at times they were flying so fast, it was hard to keep up. We’re already discussing ways to improve it.

One question remains outstanding. . . .

Does Tuesday night work for you?

Unless there is an outcry in favor of another night, Open Comment Night will be every Tuesday, starting at 7:00p.m. Chicago time. There sidebar is open and there is no closing hour. :)

See you here again next week!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Open Comments Night 2 Mike is On Open Comment Night





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53 Comments to “Thanks to all who Attended Open Comment Night 2”

  1. May 17th, 2006 at 8:06 am
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    I have one suggestion that would make it easier for us participating (click on URL of my name) .. the plugin is over [HERE] and there might be a little tweaking of your comments.php file.

  2. May 17th, 2006 at 8:09 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hart,
    That does look VERY nice. I’ll talk to someone about that Today.

  3. May 17th, 2006 at 8:32 am
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    The nice thing about it .. it’s a plugin! Activate it only Tuesday Nights.. deactivate it the rest of the time and no one will notice.. (ps if anybody wants to test it - go ahead - nobody reads my blog and curling season is over anyway .. just make up a phony congratulatory comment like “all the best next season” etc - there may be a few subscribed to the comments….)

  4. May 17th, 2006 at 8:35 am
    ME Strauss said

    I’ve already asked for help to install it. I think it looks great. I don’t know why I would want to turn it off ever. Is there a reason that I might?

  5. May 17th, 2006 at 8:44 am
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    Not really … however, if you plan to leave it on full-time .. (since half the show is in the comments blah blah) .. you are able to tweak the default view from 3 comments .. to say, at least 10 or so .. so we don’t have to keep paging back on the 172 comment posts ..(people can read them all anyway, by clicking the ’show all’ .. might be worth a POST sometime afterwards :)

  6. May 17th, 2006 at 8:46 am
    ME Strauss said

    It sounds like a very useful program for both sides of the conversation.

  7. May 17th, 2006 at 10:42 am
    Joe said

    Hey Hart,
    I tried to leave a comment on that post, it flagged me as spam???
    Joe

  8. May 17th, 2006 at 10:47 am
    Joe said

    Liz,
    Personal opinion, leave it on Tuesdays. People already know to expect it and there isn’t much else happening that night anyway.
    Just my $.02
    Joe

  9. May 17th, 2006 at 11:54 am
    ME Strauss said

    That’s the plan Joe, unless someone great flood of people give me a reason not to.

  10. May 17th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    Joe .. that was quite wierd. I forgot I had super killer spam control/configuration set .. I was getting tons of spam during the Olympics and Spam Killer assigned your comment with -11.88 points, because of your hotmail email addy and blogspot blog. Do you get spam-killed alot? I unspammed you :)

  11. May 17th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
    Joe said

    Hart,
    No, this is actually the first time…
    Joe

  12. May 17th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
    Joe said

    I just wanted to see how the comment program worked. I even forgot what I wrote.

    From what I saw it looked like it would work well for an open mic night. As long as it doesn’t spam everyone from blogger, or hotmail.

    Joe

  13. May 17th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
    Joe said

    Liz,
    I thought I lost ya…
    I tried comments and kept getting an error page. I thought maybe you were trying that new program that HART mentioned.
    Joe

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  15. May 17th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Joe,
    Don’t know what happened. I wasn’t even here. Glad you’re back either way Joe. Maybe the server was misbehaving. Who knows in the mysterious world of blogs?

  16. May 17th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
    Joe said

    Hey Liz,
    Ya never know…
    I just read that trackback link, very interesting. I think we should point AdLib in that direction, if he hasn’t already seen it.
    Joe

  17. May 17th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Yeah, Joe. It’s a good link isn’t it. I passed a link on to him earlier to day. I’ve not heard from him. He might have something else going on. It will be my first Net Neutrality link tomorrow for sure.

    Glad to see you made it in now, Joe. I have no clue what happened before.

  18. May 17th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
    Joe said

    BTW, that E-mail, I asked Darren already too.
    J.

  19. May 17th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
    Joe said

    I thought you may have tried that plug-in that HART mentioned. Like you said “ya never know” or was that me?
    J.

  20. May 17th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I didn’t try the new plugin yet. Though I’m going to.

    I’m not sure I understand what it is that you asked Darren.

  21. May 17th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
    Mark Wade said

    Hi Folks,

    Thanks Liz :-)

    I’ll tell you what - the more I read about the issues surrounding Net Neutrality, the more I find that leads me to believe that there is an incredible level of additional “stuff” behind “curtain #3.”

    I wrote a bit about this the other day but Dana Blankenhorn has also put similar pieces together here;

    http://www.danablankenhorn.com/2006/05/the_quid_pro_qu.html

    I’d love to say it’s wild stuff, but it’s actually very sickening to see what has been perpetrated on us “sheep!” Truly disgusting.

    Mark

  22. May 17th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
    Joe said

    Have you read your email lately?
    J.

  23. May 17th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Yeah, Mark,
    I know what you’re saying. I’m actually reading the things that I’m putting in the daily posts and several others that don’t make there. You really should start linking at the bottom of yours to Doc Searls and Jeff Pulver when you find something that they probably don’t know about.

    No Joe,
    I’ll check my email now.
    Liz

  24. May 17th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
    Joe said

    Liz… You did… Thanks…
    J.

  25. May 17th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
    Mark Wade said

    Darn it… I knew I forgot something! Thanks for the reminder.

  26. May 17th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
    ME Strauss said

    No problem, Joe. :)
    No problem, Mark.:)

  27. May 17th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
    Advice Librarian said

    Ah, hey gang! Just stumbled in through the door after the 17th of May celebrations over here - sort of like fourth of july, but a lot more emphasis on kids. The official parades are 90% school kids, the only military presence is the army marhing band, that sort of thing.

    I missed the early morning procession on account of hanging out with you guys last night, but I wasn’t going to go anyway since it starts at 5:50 AM - and the weather was lousy - but it was a fun event all the same. Reminds me of my own days of playing in the school band :)

    Anyway - yes, that webproworld article will do for a quotable source, I haven’t looked at it too closely yet but it’s something more than the Markos quoting Digby quoting Reynolds quoting Malking quoting Hamsher quoting Markos roundabout I fell into while trying to find someone who had the original figures.

    And yes, this is the telcos playing the Oz game with the American public - “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”.

    Well, gee willikers Dorothy, do you think this will play well in Kansas? After all, the public paid for developing the technology, you paid for the infrastructure, you waived land-use fees to let the telcos build the infrastructure faster, and in return the telcos want you to pay them extra.

    Funny, that, eh?

    By the way, Liz: here’s one more video for your collection in case you haven’t seen it yet. Found it over on Digg just now :)

  28. May 17th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Gosh AdLib,
    You’ve been a busy camper for a guy who’s been celebrating Constitution Day. Hope your constitution will hold out.

  29. May 17th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
    Advice Librarian said

    I read exceedingly fast, even compared to my book junkie friends - the last Robert Jordan brick took me 7.5 hours to finish; and I use the Rojo feedreader to alert me to new net neutrailty feeds :)

    I’m about beat and ready to pack it in, tell you the truth, but I just couldn’t help stopping by your place to see what you were up to before going to sleep.

  30. May 17th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
    Advice Librarian said

    Oh dear, I haven’t been keeping up with my email on the “public” address lately, didn’t think to check it until you mentioned emailing me just now and I didn’t find anything in the new inbox!

  31. May 17th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Sleepy swell, A.L. See you tomorrow.

  32. May 17th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
    Joe said

    Liz,
    I hope Our Constitution hold out………
    J.

  33. May 17th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Now, Joe, no downers. It’s already lasted well over 200 years. It will out last the two of us.

  34. May 17th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
    Joe said

    OK,
    I’ll keep that on my PolBlog ;-)
    J.

  35. May 17th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Joe.
    You are one of the coolest guys I know.

  36. May 17th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
    Joe said

    ~Blush~

  37. May 17th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
    Joe said

    Hey Liz,
    I just forwarded you an E-mail I got from Melbourne.
    Yeah, Australia.
    Joe

  38. May 17th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Joe,
    I already have answered your email. Congratulations. Do me proud!
    Liz

  39. May 17th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
    Joe said

    Thanks Liz,
    I hope I ask the right questions.
    Any suggestions? I know it’s my niche, but it’s hard to think of anything right now.

    Joe

  40. May 17th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Let’s make that tonight’s discussion question. Want to? It could be . . . How do you decide on what questions to ask when you’re doing an interview?

  41. May 17th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
    Joe said

    I just don’t want to ask the same things everyone else does in an interview.
    J.

  42. May 17th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
    Joe said

    But I do want to ask questions all us regular people have on our minds.
    J.

  43. May 17th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
    ME Strauss said

    No one says you have to use what anyone says here. It would be interesting fodder to get ideas though. If anyone comments. It’s starting to get late now.

  44. May 17th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
    Joe said

    I know, but he is “down under” so he’s just starting his day. I may have a long night ahead of me.
    Depends on when he replies to my reply, to his reply to my e-mail.
    I think I got that right.
    J.

  45. May 17th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Okay no worries.
    But Joe, read his post on how he works to figure out when to send him the questions.

  46. May 17th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
    Joe said

    Ok,
    I got a return mail on the reply to him. It seems the only way I can get through is from his contact form on his blog.
    I guess he blocks everyone but who he wants mail from.
    Joe

  47. May 17th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I’m know most bloggers keep their contact forms pretty tightly wound to keep out spammers. Spammers come here and drop 16 of the same message on the blog at the same second. It’s almost creepy to see it happen. That’s those automated programs working. Ewwww.

  48. May 17th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
    Joe said

    I know what you mean, I get a lot of spam in my e-mail all the time even with blockers and everything else.

    The problem is, sometimes thing you want to get are sent to the spam folder and you miss them.

    So you still have to weed through all the junk anyway.

    I don’t think there is any way to win against spam of any kind.

    J.

  49. May 17th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Spammers are the bullies of the bloggers’ playground.

  50. May 17th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
    Joe said

    Too true,

    Now its time to go to sleep,
    I’ll start by counting sheep.
    If I dream of real good things,
    I may even get new jeans.

    Berma Shave.

    Nite,Nite

    Joe

  51. May 17th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Sweet dreams, Joe.

  52. May 17th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Why Martin, *she said in her Scarlett Ohara voice* I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.

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