iePolitics: Survey
Thank you everyone for your continued support. We’re on-line for about 30,000 hits today so I appreciate all who have stuck it out with me. I’d like a little feedback since I’ve started the blog over from scratch.
Do you want the polls brought back? They were certainly less-than-scientific but they were fun and not much work.
Do you want the newspaper articles back? At this point Jim and I are doing two completely different blogs and I suspect most readers are reading both. The articles are a lot of work, but I’ll do them by popular demand or is Jim’s inclusion enough?
Any other features you want? I will probably add a chat room shortly. I can’t think of much else but maybe someone has a great idea.
All candidates are welcome to have their own sign-in so they can post their own press releases etc. Email me and I will set it up. And anyone else who wants to be a part of the blogpen is also welcome.
I haven’t ever participated in the polls but would like to. I’m so glad to see your site back up! We need to find a way to let county employees know that the blog exists. Let the Board see what county citizens and employees really think.
Newspaper articles, no. If you are reading the blog you can go to the Sun, Press-Enterprise, and LA Times websites. Polls, yes. They are fun.
I agree with Alan.
All the comments need to be listed under each thread, not just the first one made as is apparently happening with the new format.
I agree with Alan. I can read local news articles at the source. Perhaps there is a way to create a library of article links instead of coping the entire article. An abstract might be nice for articles, but they could be left off if from the main local papers. Any more obscure paper might be worth a link and more.
Polls are ok, I do them sometimes, but only if I feel strongly about a subject.
I am really interested in keeping the pressure on the subjects of interest, and not letting things die off due to no recent attention. For instance, a new reader may not know some of the history or that certain people have had some history (baggage). It would be ashamed if those people could just lay low for a while and let their transgressions fade away.
I think you should put the articles up too, because some people, including myself, enjoy leaving comments on your site rather than on the topix or PE blogs. I have personally been targeted by the topix moderators (supposedly only the editors have this power) for making “politically insensitive” comments and they regularly block/ delete my posts. Also commenting on Jim’s own blog about JB and/or the Colonies free-for-all and money give-away would be awkward. It was only a little weird before when he was assisting you with administering iePolitics, but when the shit starts hitting the fan with Ramos, especially with the Colonies “deal”, commenting on his site would definitely be AWKWARD.
First of all, your blog has, from my limited experience, done more than any other to actively influence the policy and administration of an entity as large as San Bernardino County. It may well be the preminent and premere example a a new and permanent facet in public life.
There are 50,000 of us who have come to depend on your blog in our commitment to watch the government that governs us. For his own purposes and for ours, Jim did right to secure the functions of the blog independent from the efects of your personal crisises.
He will continue to post news articles and will continue to confront the administration of San Bernardino face to face. Whatever you want to duplicate or augment is totally up to you.
Unique to this blog, to those of us who appreciate what you have accomplished, is that we want to know if you are okay. We want to know that you are being fed, are going to sleep warm, are able to keep and care for your dogs, and are able to get to where you need to go.
Those that are close by would want to know if you need a bite to eat, need a ride, or could use some firewood. Those of us who are farther away would want to know if you need help in maintaining the expenses of the blog.
God bless
Spot on! Mr Brow…again ‘well said’….and as far as the local newspapers continue to slant,under report….and in many cases just not getting to print, the stories and information we need as ‘community’….these blogs…fill a very big gap as far as our voices are concerned….as papers go…what facts and details their not printing…most of the time is the ‘real’ story!
Yes on the polls.
Yes, polls. Please consider changing the grey backgroud.
Makes it hard to read on a blackberry.
I have a question and I guess this is as good as any place too raise it. It seems to me there are not very many stories or blog posts in iePolitics. The BlogPen column to the left lists seven names. Does this mean that only those seven are authorized to posts stories or blogs in iePolitics? I’ve attempted to post a story, but didn’t have authority or couldn’t access the login option as before. Are past BlogPen posters allowed to blog in iePolitics, or access limited?
Thanks in advance for the response.
Branson, your account is set up.
Brookshire, I’m working on it.
Personally, I would like to see more discussion of the issues and less articles posted. If the news item is one that interests me, I have already read it and would prefer to see just a link and the corresponding discussion.
How many unique hits a day does the site receive?